Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not quite so hostile to them as other hon. Members are . |
| 2 | However , I am not now so anxious about my sister being left with Señor Mitchell . |
| 3 | But her novels are not nearly so remote from the realities of her time as is often claimed . |
| 4 | The wind characteristics might be slightly to the contrary of this , but are not nearly so definite . |
| 5 | Overall , they are not nearly so trendy as articles about architecture which let the fortuitous effect of individual photographs lead the text into exaggeration and bombast . |
| 6 | The rule of inversion is almost as simple ( in algebraic terms ) as a translation or a similarity , but the effects are not nearly so obvious , and to understand them requires a little more thought . |
| 7 | However , arrested development may also occur as a result of both acquired and age immunity in the host and although the proportions of larvae arrested are not usually so high as in hypobiosis they can play an important part in the epidemiology of nematode infections . |
| 8 | The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set . |
| 9 | You mentioned that schools are quite good at biology , that they have guinea pigs and they have growing plants and so forth , and I think you hinted at the fact that they perhaps are not quite so good at maybe the harder sciences , we might call them , of physics and chemistry . |
| 10 | You mentioned that schools are quite good at biology , that they have guinea pigs and they have growing plants and so forth , and I think you hinted at the fact that they perhaps are not quite so good at maybe the harder sciences , we might call them , of physics and chemistry . |
| 11 | Today beaches are not quite so safe , for hordes of gulls and small wading birds congregate to share the prodigal feast . |
| 12 | Nowadays , although lenders are not quite so lenient , professionals can still have their pick of a whole range of mortgage products . |
| 13 | However , there are also aspects of ideology which are not quite so obvious . |
| 14 | I suspect the teachers are not quite so enthusiastic some of them . |
| 15 | However the main disadvantage seems to be that current digitising tablets are not quite so comfortable and natural to use . |
| 16 | Several other offences are included in the above regulations but are not quite so common as the offence outlined . |
| 17 | This time , the results are not quite so clear-cut , particularly in the period 1982–87 when the apc rose steadily in spite of rising incomes . |
| 18 | That might seem fair enough considering the profitability of those businesses , but they are not quite so bad that people should be paid for taking them away . |
| 19 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 20 | Things are not always so straightforward . |
| 21 | Tutors may wish to explore how it would be treated if it was used for the business and for family use to illustrate that these decisions are not always so clear cut . |
| 22 | But things are not always so idyllic — because this is Angola , and one of the toughest assignments in XFI 's portfolio . |
| 23 | High levels of unemployment during the 1980s , for example , mean that labour forces in the older industrialised societies are not necessarily so expensive relative to those of the Third World . |
| 24 | A lot of Earth 's creatures , of course , are neither large nor live in tropical climes , and the energy costs of endothermy are not necessarily so high . |
| 25 | But now they 're not just so all the people can have one because Mr and Mrs are leaving . |
| 26 | The Greek police could n't nail you for anything , but we 're not quite so fussy over technicalities . |
| 27 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 28 | They 're not quite so committed to doing maths in the morning and English in the afternoon , whereas in a secondary school it is quite difficult to bring in something as that 's going to have such a dramatic effect as a micro without sort of the ripples actually perturbing things to a destructive degree . |
| 29 | Well I 'd say to price it , I know they 're not quite so expensive on carpet but I 'd say I 'd say about seventeen pounds , but I bet it was about twenty seven or thirty one |
| 30 | They 're not quite so girlish . |