Example sentences of "would [not/n't] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their supervisors would not so easily avoid censure . |
| 2 | She made it sound very simple , as young people do ; and she had n't yet considered the implications for herself , Mr Stanforth reflected cynically , or she would not so blithely dismiss the matter of the inheritance . |
| 3 | Idle to say that such conformity is merely British : if it were so , the world would not so readily understand British fiction or buy it ; and buy it does , whether as novels , films or TV serials . |
| 4 | Now , for pride , she would not crop it , she would not so much mark the occasion , but instead wore it always inside some sort of covering , hidden away . |
| 5 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |
| 6 | The convention , which has been proposed by Greenpeace , would not so much be concerned with enforcement and punishment but " would be more a guidance framework to be introduced into the thinking of governments " , declared Richard Falk , professor of international law at Harvard University and one of the keynote speakers at the conference . |