Example sentences of "not [adv] so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not quite so upstanding now , of course — |
| 2 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 3 | It 's expensive though is n't it ? something like , we got for Emma you know , a bit , but not quite so expensive maybe . |
| 4 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 5 | It is not quite so simple now , is it ? |
| 6 | Paradoxically it was not quite so bad now the invaders had arrived . |
| 7 | I just wonder whether erm I think that stool there might have been better to have her sitting on that one , not quite so high up and she could have adopted a more comfortable pose and she would n't have needed another prop for her foot . |
| 8 | It 's not that so much though , it 's just a luxury and the the quietness of the engine and everything |