Example sentences of "so [conj] [ex0] [be] not " in BNC.

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1 So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source .
2 This would , in fact , make an ideal introduction to the works , were it not for the fact that the packaging completely misleads the purchaser as to the playing order of the music : it is listed as ( in order ) — but the disc actually plays , so that there 's not a single track which corresponds with the one listed in the sleeve note !
3 Some people even leave radios on in the house , so that there 's not only the light on , but if somebody does walk up the drive intending to knock on the door to test it , before they get to the door they can hear a noise , they turn around and go back .
4 I mean poor dogs and this , I mean we 've said it all before it 's not viable , four dogs and a semi that you do n't exercise , four dogs that er appear particularly one of them to be housed in the same little area , day in day out with a curtain on the door , so that there 's not even light going in there
5 You will learn most from the diet if you can time it so that there are not too many parties , outings or other disruptive events , especially during the retesting period .
6 The coachman brings us here early , so that there are not too many about who will know me , as Papa puts it .
7 Other Goblin Shamans need to be kept towards the flanks or placed so that there are not too many Orcs and Goblins about , otherwise they will ‘ eadbang .
8 One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another .
9 In areas of readily eroded rocks the rivers may carry so much load that one of two things may happen : either the estuary may be filled soon after it is formed or the aggradation may keep pace with the rising sea level so that there is not a stage of actual ria or estuary formation .
10 The theme uses each half of the series so that there is not only a transposed pitch retrograde at the midway point ( halfway through bar 6 ) but also a rhythmic retrograde .
11 As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ?
12 Certainly , the means of expression are limited and their values rather general , so that there is not the same flexibility of tense as in an explicit finite clause ( but this is a common contrast found , not only in English but in many languages , between finite main verb phrases and other syntactic groups ( see Ferris and Jah , 1989 ) .
13 And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it .
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