Example sentences of "n't so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So maybe that 's kept us going when the times were n't so good as they might be . |
| 2 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 3 | His words indicated that he was n't so young as he looked , and she said , ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Or , at least it is n't so long as we avoid that bit of road . ’ |
| 5 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 6 | But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't . |
| 7 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 8 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 9 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |