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 . |