Example sentences of "not so [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 2 | Wainwright 's , Livingstone 's and Hattersley 's articles all provoked various letters in response and hence we can begin to detect a limited , but not insignificant , space for discussion and criticism being opened up within the periphery of critical and not so critical journals . |
| 3 | On the other , it 's full of not so nice surprises . |
| 4 | tends to work better , I 'm not so sure portrait is the right thing to do . |
| 5 | I 'm not so sure Larry . |
| 6 | He had told Tolonen otherwise , but the truth was that he was not so sure Li Yuan was wrong . |
| 7 | She was not sure what she felt about the rapport which was springing up between her treasure and his now not so new maid . |
| 8 | Today sees the debut of a number of new and not so new summer signings . |
| 9 | OSF/1 FUTURE IN BALANCE AS NOT SO PROUD PARENTS WAVER |
| 10 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 11 | There was his keen sense of humour ; his hospitality ; his wide knowledge of so many subjects ; his concern for dumb animals ; and his contempt for not so dumb humans . |
| 12 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 13 | So it is not an impossibility that the Earth has indeed been flipped over , or at least tilted , during remote or even not so remote prehistory . |
| 14 | Some of the drovers , usually employed in the Cattle Auction Marts , were well plied with beer and in no time were leading processions of small and some not so small children around the city , processions which seemed mainly to support the Conservative cause . |
| 15 | The dainty Lillian suspended by her toes … the not so dainty Betty endures her first ballet lesson … the amazing dexterity of the Juggling Jennies … and the mind boggling manipulations of the Magic Marys with Angela De Castro |
| 16 | In the not so distant past , North Dalton 's church was well supported . |
| 17 | Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past . |
| 18 | Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three , in the not so distant past . |
| 19 | Taking Laugharne , Llansteffan and Ferryside in context , that not so distant dream of typically quaint and charming Welsh seaside villages is complete . |
| 20 | In the not so distant future Wimpey 's decision to run its Middle East operation from Dubai under the directorship of Hugh Hayden will give a massive fillip to our ability to secure work in the region . |
| 21 | We also once had a not so young horse who took a while to understand the requirements of turn on the forehand . |
| 22 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 23 | ( Exercise 3.12.10 gives an example not so unlike Q in which no such m can be found . ) |
| 24 | Not so good luck for the Veterans A side in Division One of the Veterans ' Section , who went down 7–2 to Romford A. Derek Wood and Dave Binns took a point apiece for Clacton . |
| 25 | I get good days and not so good days . ’ |
| 26 | Where do we start when it comes to some of our not so good years in the second division . |
| 27 | Such lavas resemble raspberry jam that is half pips ( or is it wood shavings they use ? ) ; they are not so much liquids as pasty mushes of solid material . |
| 28 | Images of that immortal sea , of children sporting on the shore and the mighty waters rolling evermore , are not so much allusions to what brought us hither , as Wordsworth would have it , but reminders to book this year 's holiday to the Costa del Sol or the Bahamas . |
| 29 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 30 | not so much promise or instruction |