Example sentences of "are not so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver . |
| 2 | The Toraja acquire them through inheritance , but they are still " free souls " , and often become richer than their masters — since they are not so rigorously required to re-distribute their wealth . |
| 3 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 4 | The ‘ biogrammar ’ of evolutionary stable strategies and the acquired ‘ sociogrammar ’ of social rules and roles are not so distinctly separated ; they interlace functionally and epigenetically in ways that are not yet understood . |
| 5 | West Sussex and east Hampshire have probably had exactly the same sequence of movements of sea level , but the signs of submergence are not so strongly marked . |
| 6 | Local education authorities in England , Wales and Scotland are subsidiaries of the wider local councils , but those in Northern Ireland are not so closely linked to the rest of local government . |
| 7 | ‘ Hearts are not so easily broken . |
| 8 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 9 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 10 | Both of these are major considerations in comparing deaf and hearing recall ; unfortunately they are not so easily realised when stimulus material is non-verbal . |
| 11 | In sharing a home with a stranger who shares no common standards of behaviour , compromises and allowances are not so easily made . |
| 12 | Yet those with a nose for the perfect story are not so easily dissuaded . |
| 13 | But the Erinyes are not so easily bought off , for what seemed so cleanly available was too lucid , too crisply dialectical . |
| 14 | Years of self-deception are not so easily washed away in evangelical frenzy . |
| 15 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 16 | Already the two short-nose versions in the fleet are earmarked for disposal , probably as spares , because they are not so easily loaded and therefore less saleable . |
| 17 | The songs from Snoopy and The Nightingale are not so immediately appealing to anyone who does n't know the shows , but the casts are strong and put the numbers across with confidence and verve . |
| 18 | The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected . |
| 19 | Unlike training , which has a NACAB staff presence in all area offices , the IPG serves from a distance and so its internal processes are not so widely known . |
| 20 | When it comes to television sets , Latin Americans are not so well endowed . |
| 21 | But there might be other , more dangerous examples of his getting personal , and with people who are not so well balanced . |
| 22 | As far as possible , a specialist will compare the pottery with other examples ( usually called ‘ parallels ’ ) that have been securely dated , but if the only other examples of a type of pottery are not so well dated , the specialist points this out , giving references to the parallels that have been used . |
| 23 | Others are not so well informed . |
| 24 | But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature . |
| 25 | Where once price was all , now predators are not so well thought of . |
| 26 | Once the product hits the real world it has to cope with users who are not so well behaved or gentle — hence the totally new crop of errors . |
| 27 | The meanings of Redhead , Cruickshank , Barefoot , are obvious as are those of Thynne and Broad , but those of Callow = bald , and Pendrell = long ears , are not so well known . |
| 28 | But the treatment of the rest of the face is more complex , subtler and more empirical ; it is no longer divided into a few clearly defined sections , and eyes and mouth are not so precisely stylized and deliberately emphasized as they had been before . |
| 29 | But the realities of decision making , as I have tried to show earlier in this chapter , are not so readily pinned down . |
| 30 | of c.1821–4 is almost as fine , though the plates are not so highly finished , with ‘ E.L . ’ |