Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say . |
| 2 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 3 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 4 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 5 | Not so quietly as to escape the attention of the ever-vigilant Scottish recruitment machine , however . |
| 6 | Hilts has fallen under the spell of each in turn — not so deeply as to distort fact , but deeply enough to lose the sardonic , sceptical qualities that ought never quite to desert the journalist . |