Example sentences of "'s [not/n't] so [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 John told her what her father had said ; ‘ He 's not so Western as his nephew .
2 So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’
3 It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US .
4 And doing it 's not so much that you 're doing everything wrong , it 's just the one thing which being done right is that the other way of putting it that , the guy because he 's so well organized what effect does that have on everybody else then ?
5 And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion .
6 It 's not so much that it
7 And that 's not so daft as it seems you know .
8 Well it 's not so easy when they 're further away is it ?
9 It 's like playing a good game of squash , squash , to get a better game and it 's not so hard because you 're off to , you , you 're fit for the game .
10 I 'll say it is I 'll say it is but she says she has a trapped nerve in the top of her leg , she says sometimes it 's not so bad but she said it 's not bad , you know when I get up she says I 'm in a lot of pain and it , you have to take painkillers for it
11 Well that 's not so bad if you 're getting a wee bit of help with her but er she 's a
12 Nine foot tall , that 's not so bad if you
13 It 's not so bad if it 's got picture , you know what 's inside it then .
14 Well I know with Arnold and Antony is Arnold 's not so bad cos he uses his quite a bit er but the tendency with Antony is , when the bill comes in each month th the rental is double what the usage is most of the time .
15 ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’
16 it 's not so bad when you get one ,
17 I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg .
18 It 's not so heavy when they have dried .
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