Example sentences of "not so [adj] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 2 | But perhaps this not so much to do with ‘ stars ’ as the fact that related people often share the same preferences when planning their families . |
| 3 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 4 | It was easy to say , but not so easy to do . |
| 5 | Once she had believed she could control these feelings , but in reality that was proving not so easy to do . |
| 6 | All very easy to say , but human nature being what it was , and her own curiosity playing a very large part of it , not so easy to do . |
| 7 | Peasant enclosures , however , were not so likely to do this as those by greater men , whose lands were sufficiently extensive for them to support large flocks and who would therefore have found such a conversion of land usage economically worth while . |