Example sentences of "that [verb] [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unexpectedly , however , L289 also reacted with a futehr peak of material that has not so far been identified in antral extracts and that emerged relatively late and did not correspond to one of the LW60 peaks . |
| 2 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 3 | My own investigation into the organisation of written texts at lower secondary level ( Harris , 1980 ) points to the occurrence of a range of sharply differentiated linguistic features that vary not so much with subject areas but with what appear to be fundamental text types . |
| 4 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 5 | They were eight-sided crystals set at regular intervals in the walls and ceiling , and they shed a rather unpleasant glow that did n't so much illuminate as outline the darkness . |
| 6 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 7 | They deserve a more sensitive environment that does not so harshly relegate them en masse to the category of ‘ old people ’ and does not emphasize , in attitudes and actions , their increasing dependency ; many need help , too , in coming to terms with the process of ageing and the major adjustments it entails — to retirement , to relinquishing their home , etc . |
| 8 | A.Berlin , for example , affirms that " there is no qualitative difference between the so-called " fixed " pairs and pairs that have not so been labelled . |