Example sentences of "not so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A social work career was developed in connection with this work , but not so effectively as was the case in the children 's departments . |
| 2 | ‘ Not so fast as I 'd like , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Internal security police still dog real or imagined opponents , though not so blatantly as last year . |
| 4 | Jerome had done foully , but not so foully as he himself and all here believed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say . |
| 7 | Here too , though not so strongly as in the Hestia , I seem to glimpse a masterpiece behind the marble . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 12 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
| 13 | Not so far as I recollect . ’ |
| 14 | Not so far as I know . |
| 15 | But he was n't a friend of Hilary 's , not so far as I know . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Not so far as we know , ’ a man in a flat cap wearing a Hawks Club tie told him . |
| 19 | ‘ Not so far as I am aware . ’ |
| 20 | Sometimes I forget people too , but not so often as places . |
| 21 | ‘ Not so often as you , Morse . ’ |
| 22 | But she had nice hair — not so long as Marie 's , but just as shiny . |
| 23 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 24 | ‘ Not so long as you keep within the law . ’ |
| 25 | ( 3 ) The wife shall not so long as the husband shall punctually make the payments hereby agreed to be made commence or prosecute against the husband any matrimonial proceedings other than proceedings for dissolution of marriage but upon failure of the husband to make the said weekly payments as and when the same become due the wife shall be at full liberty on her election to pursue all and every remedy in this regard either by enforcement of the provisions hereof or as if this agreement had not been made.n So far as we know , the parties have remained apart ever since . |
| 26 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 27 | ‘ Not so long as I am working for you . ’ |
| 28 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 29 | Hungarians are no longer afraid , at least not so long as reformers run Russia , that Soviet tanks will snuff out their democratic experiment , as they did in 1956 . |
| 30 | Not so long as we 've got the stuff . |