Example sentences of "not so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Engels 's argument is clear : the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class . |
| 32 | She made it sound very simple , as young people do ; and she had n't yet considered the implications for herself , Mr Stanforth reflected cynically , or she would not so blithely dismiss the matter of the inheritance . |
| 33 | A picture emerges of a courageous , determined , resilient little individual , not so badly damaged by her early experiences , after all . |
| 34 | Even among those not so badly affected , ignorance about radiation produces powerful if sometimes irrational fear . |
| 35 | 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 " . |
| 36 | Secondly , and this was not so widely appreciated , the deuterium nuclei are farther apart in the palladium than in the heavy water , and being further apart are even less likely to fuse when in the palladium than in the heavy water ! |
| 37 | What is not so widely appreciated is that even after problems of vocabulary and fluency are overcome a more fundamental differentiation remains . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | This structure is not so closely packed as the other two . |
| 41 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 42 | In London , as Professor Rudé has noted , the incidence of civil disturbance was not so closely tied to peaks in food prices . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver . |
| 45 | It 's not so easy saying goodbye . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Then another girl walked in — not so nice looking , not such a nice red dress — and she was absolutely crazy about me . |
| 47 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 48 | That Convention is not so narrowly drawn and explicitly provides for dispositive treaties and boundary regimes . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 52 | The problem is to convince those who are not so immediately affected . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Yet those with a nose for the perfect story are not so easily dissuaded . |
| 55 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 56 | Virgin flesh was not so easily come upon in those days ; and a virgin garnished with terror was an unexpected breakfast treat after his long sleep . |
| 57 | In sharing a home with a stranger who shares no common standards of behaviour , compromises and allowances are not so easily made . |
| 58 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 59 | You may think it 's easy for you , and it might be , but I 'm not so easily fooled , oh no . " |
| 60 | Their supervisors would not so easily avoid censure . |