Example sentences of "n't so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos Joe said your , that 's right it must be this , I said it ai n't so early as that . |
| 2 | Oh dear , ’ Sophia looked depressed , ‘ perhaps it is n't so splendid after all . |
| 3 | Strangely , she was n't so upset by the revival of a strong physical attraction . |
| 4 | Milan , lacking his fellow Dutchman Rijkaard in central midfield , were n't so impressive last Sunday when they beat Parma 2–1 at San Siro in the Super Cup . |
| 5 | That , in a dream , was n't so surprising . |
| 6 | Perhaps , then , it was n't so surprising that Lorne had one or two funny ideas about himself . |
| 7 | Sometimes the spelling is n't so hot but belief , as Melanie McFadyean found , still seems to burn bright . |
| 8 | And , perhaps to keep in line with the rest of British technology , it 's a bit of mixed bag — some of the ideas and features it contains are really good , but the implementation is n't so hot . |
| 9 | I was trying to tell them it was n't so hot yesterday and then coming out and out you know . |
| 10 | Back they came though , with a goal from David Penney , which proved that Portsmouth were n't so hot ; that United could perhaps pull this one out of the fire . |
| 11 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 12 | Things are n't so great at the wheel , however . |
| 13 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it is n't so great here at the bottom , most of the time . |
| 15 | It may be that some areas are running out of money er which clearly need money , maybe there 's other areas are in surplus with the demands on them that are n't so great , so the answer may simply be to find a way of operating with greater flexibility within the total cash limit . |
| 16 | Other than that the neck feels really good and solid , and although it 's of the slim , wide variety ( 43.75mm at nut ) the fingerboard is n't so wide that you ca n't wrap a thumb over the top if you 're so inclined . |
| 17 | Those audition sessions were produced by Bernie Anderson , who signed Tom Jones after hearing ‘ this scruffy Welshman who opened his mouth to produce a magnificent sound ’ but who was n't so impressed by The Rolling Stones , whose audition got the thumbs down . |
| 18 | ‘ Bulgaria was n't so proud in the war , ’ I said . |
| 19 | After this , he became a nicer cat , + was n't so proud of himself all the time . |
| 20 | Out in the real world , if these things were n't so serious , they would indeed be laughable . |
| 21 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 22 | And I would n't do it now , if I was n't so close to the end of the line . ’ |
| 23 | If he were n't so close , she 'd be able to think of avoiding action , but … |
| 24 | Much of the weekend sports action though , IS N'T so close to home … |
| 25 | Some of the things you think ai n't so nice , but that 's the way it is . ’ |
| 26 | Close up , I decided , birds were n't so nice . |
| 27 | He opened the car door for her ; at least his manners were good — it was a pity the rest of him was n't so nice . |
| 28 | Oh this one is n't so nice with all this sand . |
| 29 | Well she bought that in case that was n't so nice . |
| 30 | If it were n't so ludicrous , it would be laughable ! |