Example sentences of "not so [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is not so curious then that blacks have manifested a predilection for sport and have achieved high orders of success in their chosen disciplines . |
2 | But I 'm not so sure now if it 's possible . ’ |
3 | United not so good away but you never know … |
4 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
5 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
6 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
7 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
8 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
9 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
10 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
11 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
12 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
13 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
14 | But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I . |
15 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
16 | Not er not so many now but it 's er we 've still got members but I mean we well we 're you know all about that you 're the front |
17 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
18 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
19 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
20 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
21 | It 's not so bad now because tap 's working again . |
22 | Auntie Ethel 's old school friend , Elaine , not so popular now that she was Rich and Successful . |