Example sentences of "the [adv] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time-honoured method has been by urine testing , but with the renal threshold in the not so elderly being of the order of 10 mmol/1 glycosuria is only going to occur when the blood glucose is in double figures . |
| 2 | THE NOT SO LAZY LIFE OF LARRY & LILY |
| 3 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 4 | In the not so distant past , North Dalton 's church was well supported . |
| 5 | Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past . |
| 6 | Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three , in the not so distant past . |
| 7 | In the not so distant future Wimpey 's decision to run its Middle East operation from Dubai under the directorship of Hugh Hayden will give a massive fillip to our ability to secure work in the region . |
| 8 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 9 | The more so this month , which by tradition brings exceptional offers for buyers who would rather save money by relieving dealers of unsold ‘ H ’ models than covert the snob value of driving the same model with a ‘ J ’ plate . |