Example sentences of "be [not/n't] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I am not so very used to calculating the tides , Mrs James , said Heinrich in a pleasant conversational tone . |
| 2 | ( As a legal aside , it appears that screen fonts are not so vigorously copyrighted — or at least protected — as the printer fonts . |
| 3 | Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver . |
| 4 | The Toraja acquire them through inheritance , but they are still " free souls " , and often become richer than their masters — since they are not so rigorously required to re-distribute their wealth . |
| 5 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 6 | The ‘ biogrammar ’ of evolutionary stable strategies and the acquired ‘ sociogrammar ’ of social rules and roles are not so distinctly separated ; they interlace functionally and epigenetically in ways that are not yet understood . |
| 7 | West Sussex and east Hampshire have probably had exactly the same sequence of movements of sea level , but the signs of submergence are not so strongly marked . |
| 8 | Local education authorities in England , Wales and Scotland are subsidiaries of the wider local councils , but those in Northern Ireland are not so closely linked to the rest of local government . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 11 | But the Erinyes are not so easily bought off , for what seemed so cleanly available was too lucid , too crisply dialectical . |
| 12 | Years of self-deception are not so easily washed away in evangelical frenzy . |
| 13 | Foods like eggs , avocado pears and peanuts are not so easily recognizable . |
| 14 | Already the two short-nose versions in the fleet are earmarked for disposal , probably as spares , because they are not so easily loaded and therefore less saleable . |
| 15 | Both of these are major considerations in comparing deaf and hearing recall ; unfortunately they are not so easily realised when stimulus material is non-verbal . |
| 16 | In sharing a home with a stranger who shares no common standards of behaviour , compromises and allowances are not so easily made . |
| 17 | Yet those with a nose for the perfect story are not so easily dissuaded . |
| 18 | ‘ Hearts are not so easily broken . |
| 19 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 20 | They will be feeling indulgent towards us , because we are not so evidently , so rowdily in love ; yet we should be discreetly indulgent towards them . |
| 21 | The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected . |
| 22 | The songs from Snoopy and The Nightingale are not so immediately appealing to anyone who does n't know the shows , but the casts are strong and put the numbers across with confidence and verve . |
| 23 | They are likely to be more closely related to past sexual and religious taboos which , because they are not as powerful in modern society , are not so immediately apparent to the younger counsellor . |
| 24 | Unlike training , which has a NACAB staff presence in all area offices , the IPG serves from a distance and so its internal processes are not so widely known . |
| 25 | The immature deliberative faculty will mature ; children have the ‘ possibility apparent ’ of turning into rational beings ( Hobbes ) ; they love to be treated as though they were rational though they are not so yet ( Locke ) ; you can give the prerational child reasons for acting in certain ways and he will turn into the youth who is capable of having principles ( Kant ) . |
| 26 | Others are not so well informed . |
| 27 | When it comes to television sets , Latin Americans are not so well endowed . |
| 28 | The meanings of Redhead , Cruickshank , Barefoot , are obvious as are those of Thynne and Broad , but those of Callow = bald , and Pendrell = long ears , are not so well known . |
| 29 | But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature . |
| 30 | As far as possible , a specialist will compare the pottery with other examples ( usually called ‘ parallels ’ ) that have been securely dated , but if the only other examples of a type of pottery are not so well dated , the specialist points this out , giving references to the parallels that have been used . |