Example sentences of "which [be] not so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328
2 Sometimes the final stage of the journey is made by local chartered coach which is not so well equipped , but we do make comfort stops for smokers and sometimes for meals , at the discretion of the crew , at all stages of the journey .
3 His examples include [ 11 ] , which is not so obviously related to an apposition of phrases : If [ 11 ] is an example of apposition , then the assumption that cases of loose apposition are reductions of non-restrictive or appositive relative clauses can not be maintained .
4 Table 7 and 8 show that RFA is not so great for females as for the overall population , especially in the case of word recognition , which is not so significantly great .
5 A story of Boudariah which is not so very old , I will tell you , but I think you will not believe . ’
6 Wycliffe tried to recall what his own daughter had been like at twenty , which was not so very long ago .
7 The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’
8 The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves .
9 The scourge had abated , but psychological damage had been done , which was not so readily repaired .
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