Example sentences of "not [been] so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 2 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 3 | Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established . |
| 4 | But there were also features of the area itself which exacerbated Anglo-French friction and which have not been so closely studied . |
| 5 | Black guillemots ( tysties ) have not been so badly affected , perhaps because they are not so dependent on the pelagic fish such as sand-eels and young gadoids ( whitefish ) but catch more bottom-living fish such butterfish and rockling . |
| 6 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 7 | Four knights at least , all Grey 's men ; and a rugged , thickset figure in half-armour , whose seat in the saddle was familiar , even if the black horse under him had not been so signally ornamented with his blazon . |
| 8 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 9 | It is probably the case that women have not been so seriously affected by long-term unemployment as have men in comparable occupations . |
| 10 | if common sense had not been so uniquely transformed , then there would be little reason to formulate this new , specific concept of social representation . |
| 11 | The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn 's disease patients has not been so far studied , and deserves investigation . |
| 12 | A comprehensive evaluation of the motility at different levels of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients , however , has not been so far reported . |
| 13 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 14 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 15 | If he had n't been so badly injured we would n't have even attempted a rescue until later , but he was in a bad way , so we had no choice . ’ |