Example sentences of "[conj] they [was/were] not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ . |
| 2 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 3 | These proposals were initially welcomed by both Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and his Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( although they were not so favourably received by the East German government ) , but on May 8 Kohl rejected them as " negotiation poker " . |
| 4 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 5 | Some recorded comments would be merely offensive if they were not so potentially damaging . |
| 6 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 7 | Which mountains was another question , but they were not so very far from the coast , to judge by how long it had taken to drive here from whatever port they had arrived in . |
| 8 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 9 | But these truths were by no means self-evident at the time of their first suggestion , when they were not so readily acceptable . |