Example sentences of "n't [adv] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you were n't already so bruised and battered I 'd turn you over my knee and make sure you had nothing to laugh about . ’ |
| 2 | Lisa Adam 's fingers were n't always so nimble in her job as a packer for Lanes in Gloucester . |
| 3 | Of course we were n't always so lucky in Scotland . |
| 4 | Arthur was n't always so lucky though . |
| 5 | Down the bottom end there one they are n't ever so dear , one forty something . |
| 6 | Admittedly the others were n't nearly so beguiling , or inventive , and do you know what is worse ? ’ he derided himself mockingly . |
| 7 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 8 | Girls it was n't nearly so important that they should be er er an and also I , I do n't think my parents thought I was really worth educating . |
| 9 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 10 | Maybe Auckland air fares are n't really so expensive ; for flying training a New Zealand summer beats a UK winter , hands down ! |
| 11 | underneath which are n't really so easy to see |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure my touch is n't really so special . |
| 13 | And he did kind of consider taking the two the next was n't fairly so good . |
| 14 | Her cut of the money was n't even so great . |
| 15 | Let's hope all the inhabitants are n't quite so temperamental . ’ |
| 16 | Liz Frazer , who only made three ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Cabby , Cruising and Regardless , remembers most affectionately of all the Ken who was n't quite so serious . |
| 17 | And , I certainly have taken steps to make sure that I do n't get a wasps nest , but in that particular area again , because he begged to point out to me where the wasp was getting access to , a little tiny space above my bedroom window , and that has now been sealed , so hopefully the wasps another year will find a home somewhere else that is n't quite so close to my open bedroom window . |
| 18 | The eighth one was n't quite so credulous , so he forged her will and smothered her . ’ |
| 19 | And I was n't quite so hopeless . |
| 20 | I was n't quite so sure about Engelbert Humperdinck , who seemed rather vain to me . |
| 21 | He was very good when it was subjects he understood , like girlfriends or summer holidays , but when we brought in a political issue he was n't quite so sure of it , but he grew into it very well . |
| 22 | As to her own life — of that she was n't quite so sure . |
| 23 | But Gwendoline was n't quite so sure about her father , he can say things at times very like Miss Potts said . |
| 24 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 25 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 26 | He wished his tongue was n't quite so dry and that the skin round his neck did n't feel so very tight . |
| 27 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 28 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 29 | Nowadays theologians are n't quite so straightforward as Paley . |
| 30 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |