Example sentences of "not [verb] so for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet affairs which , perhaps , appeared to be progressing well enough were not to remain so for many more years .
2 If Hand could not do so for 65 theses , then tracing 550 authors of Scottish geology theses would have been even more daunting , and there would have been difficulties in selecting a statistically valid sub-set for a questionnaire .
3 In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money .
4 Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years .
5 The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years .
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