Example sentences of "not so [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 2 | A picture emerges of a courageous , determined , resilient little individual , not so badly damaged by her early experiences , after all . |
| 3 | These proposals were initially welcomed by both Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and his Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( although they were not so favourably received by the East German government ) , but on May 8 Kohl rejected them as " negotiation poker " . |
| 4 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 5 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 8 | The differentiation of accidents from other types is useful in the context of emergency planning and is not so clearly conveyed by other hazard typologies . |
| 9 | Successful business transactions hinge on the overcoming of cultural barriers to communication , with the consequent emergence of a localised negotiated order , not so clearly dominated by the host society and its culture . |
| 10 | He has also been a fine advocate of the Piano Concerto , not so far recorded by him . |
| 11 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 12 | Though not so far repeated by other workers elsewhere , this French work would seem to demonstrate test-tube ( in vitro ) effects of homoeopathic potencies , albeit low ones , in a wide variety of laboratory situations . |
| 13 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 14 | Not so much bound by formal rules and procedures as large organisations . |
| 15 | The exceptionally high absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays , which necessitated employing thirty per cent more workers than was economically justified , was not so much caused by the demon drink ; but because … etcetera , etcetera … . |
| 16 | [ Yet ] give him [ the American ] all these advantages , and he will still be longing to cross the water , to get back to that old home of his fathers , so delightful in itself … the less wealthy , less cultivated , less fastidious class of Americans are not so much haunted by these longings … |
| 17 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 18 | Only then does he discover that the system of which he is a hero is not so highly regarded by all its customers . |
| 19 | In another area , for example in the interior regions of Italy , where land is in short supply and where production patterns are not so severely restricted by climate and latitude , a more diversified farming pattern may be possible . |
| 20 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |