Example sentences of "was [not/n't] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , although in some cases the erection of a fence can be very significant , it seems to me that that was not so here . |
| 2 | Engels 's argument is clear : the Germans were able to vanquish the Romans because their society was not so internally corrupted by class . |
| 3 | It was not so ridiculously bizarre that it was unwearable but it was bad enough . |
| 4 | In other institutions ( probably because of the greater quantity of compulsory core work ) this was not so frequently referred to . |
| 5 | Zborowski 's constant , if precarious , backing had meant that Modigliani was not so desperately short of money . |
| 6 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |
| 7 | In London , as Professor Rudé has noted , the incidence of civil disturbance was not so closely tied to peaks in food prices . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Robert Lovell , a recent Bristol friend of democratic principles , was not so easily persuaded , but before long ‘ totally changed his opinion ’ and became an important convert . |
| 11 | But the problem was not so easily solved , nor do I believe , nearly half a century later , that it has been happily settled yet . |
| 12 | Craigbarnet was not so easily disposed of , however , and by the winter of 1726–7 the Montrose interest had hit on another scheme designed to satisfy the needy Jacobite laird with the influential friends . |
| 13 | In this way , the resented class identity was not so easily discarded . |
| 14 | The cost to his pride was not so easily calculated . |
| 15 | Grunte was not so easily discouraged . |
| 16 | The questioner , however , was not so easily fobbed off and used a familiar gambit in an attempt to get Sir Denys to open up . |
| 17 | The scourge had abated , but psychological damage had been done , which was not so readily repaired . |
| 18 | Even if foreign policy was not so fully rational in practice , this was still the best starting assumption , with ‘ utility ’ being glossed as ‘ power ’ . |
| 19 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 20 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |
| 21 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 22 | She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so . |
| 23 | In relation to the consultation draft erm we er in April nineteen ninety two , we explained that we we believed that er erm the figure of twenty five hectares was not so far er adrift from our local plan proposals to merit an objection or merit treatment as a departure . |
| 24 | He had an unexpectedly deep voice , as if maturity was not so far off . |
| 25 | ‘ My way of life/Is fallen into the sere , the yellow leaf' , says Macbeth ; ‘ why do you start , and seem to fear/Things that do sound so fair ? ’ asks Banquo ; ‘ I see thee still ’ , says Macbeth to the imaginary dagger , ‘ And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood , /Which was not so before . ’ |
| 26 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately its path was not so very efficient ‘ … because of the murky inconsistencies of Turkish administration ’ .10 |
| 28 | It was not so very much , after all , she might easily live another twenty years or more , and money was not endlessly elastic . |
| 29 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 30 | Aye , and against the scavenging scum of the undercity , from which the Valence factory was not so very far removed . |