Example sentences of "not so [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not so personhood .
2 George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’
3 Not so Grimm , apparently .
4 Not so Constanza .
5 Not so Mark James , who 10 years ago had The Open in his sights , only to tail off .
6 Not so I. I 'm a natural .
7 Not so Nuridzo however .
8 Almost anyone else witnessing the achievements of this small child would have been tempted to make a great fuss and shout the news all over the village and beyond , but not so Mrs Phelps .
9 Not so CND house designer John Parke , who produced the anti warmongers ' new hallmark .
10 Not so Morrissey .
11 But not so Jesus .
12 Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one .
13 States escaped relatively unscathed last year ; not so cities and counties , which are less constrained by the law in matters of budgetary irresponsibility .
14 Not so civilians , but diplomats have been tortured to death . ’
15 Not so Glenavon .
16 Not so Glenavon .
17 If the penchant for story-telling and the glib explanation could be inhibited in most of the attackers of neo-Darwinism ( the uninhibited producers of Not So Stories ) , there would be less noise and more sense in the world , and his book not written .
18 It 's not so introspective , not so downtrodden as the other stuff . ’
19 Italy 's governments are unstable and inept ; not so Germany 's , although the Bundestag they rest on is shaped by PR .
20 Not so Lord Dacre .
21 Not so Witcher .
22 She woke up moments before you were going to put the box over her head.That is not so sir , was his reply .
23 Not so butterflies .
24 Not so glass .
25 ‘ The real story is not so fairy-tale , ’ Rohan said drily .
26 We 'd like a change in the law er for under fourteens really , to get guns locked away in cases in houses not so children can just go and pick them up .
27 Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place .
28 All such variations contain the same general idea : " we " , who are true kin , share a common substance through our shared links with the same ancestral past ; but wherever descent is traced through both males and females the distinction between those who are unmarriageable because they rate as true kin and those who are marriageable because they do not so rate becomes very fuzzy .
29 Not so Sandra Deacon and Claire Gray , who launched Deacon Gray on 1 August last year , three months before the birth of Claire 's second baby .
30 And not so Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , both hyperconscious men , and both ( as we shall see ) linked by their condition to the city which Peter the Great pondered over and then ordered to be built .
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