Example sentences of "not so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look down at the foot of the page and you will probably find others , occurring not so frequently but with regularity and at fixed intervals . |
| 2 | And in terms of vehicle operating costs savings , if I just go back to the top of that page , the inner routes again perform well not not so not so well or better ? |
| 3 | A social work career was developed in connection with this work , but not so effectively as was the case in the children 's departments . |
| 4 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 5 | ‘ Not so fast as I 'd like , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 7 | Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way . |
| 8 | Internal security police still dog real or imagined opponents , though not so blatantly as last year . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , picking her way delicately for his sake , ‘ the cloth still finds its way in , though not so freely and not so profitably . |
| 10 | Jerome had done foully , but not so foully as he himself and all here believed . |
| 11 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 12 | If you had the money and the leisure in Brazil , and Emerson 's family gave him both — though not so lavishly as , say , Piquet 's family — motor racing was something perfectly natural . |
| 13 | ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say . |
| 14 | Here too , though not so strongly as in the Hestia , I seem to glimpse a masterpiece behind the marble . |
| 15 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 18 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 19 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 21 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
| 22 | Not so far as I recollect . ’ |
| 23 | Not so far as I know . |
| 24 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 25 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 26 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 27 | ‘ Not so far as we know , ’ a man in a flat cap wearing a Hawks Club tie told him . |
| 28 | ‘ Not so far as I am aware . ’ |
| 29 | He made her a bow , lighter and smaller than his , until she could shoot with it almost as well as Allen himself , though not so far because the light bow would n't carry . |
| 30 | Although she still struck the bottom it was not so often or as hard . |