Example sentences of "not so [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 2 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 3 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 4 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 5 | But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I . |
| 6 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 7 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 8 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 9 | The breakfast dishes were n't even washed , though I have n't so many now as two daughters are away . |
| 10 | And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now . |