Example sentences of "not been so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these social problems had not been so evidently worrying , it is highly unlikely that the active citizen would ever have been heard about . |
| 2 | She would never forget the first time , balanced high on the steep roof of the house , huddled from the wind against the chimney-stack , Fenna 's great shadow hovering over her , although Fenna had surely not been so hugely vast then as he was now , his shadow had not obliterated the stars , threatening their very existence . |
| 3 | Now he walked with a sense of fatefulness which he would have mocked had it not been so inescapably serious . |
| 4 | Yet a closer look behind these stark figures suggests that the English have not been so peculiarly heartless . |
| 5 | That would have been comical if it had n't been so downright offensive . |
| 6 | The very notion of becoming friendly with this arrogant , pig-headed latter-day Viking would have made her laugh if the situation had n't been so horribly unfunny . |
| 7 | But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown . |