Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it be [not/n't] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it was a question of fact for the Crown Court , which was entitled to find that it was not so practicable . |
| 2 | I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so . |
| 3 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 4 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 5 | The over-ridingly important point is made that it is not so much which subject is being learned , but rather how it is being learned . |
| 6 | I can still run although it 's not so easy these days |
| 7 | Scholars of Confucianism are agreed that it is not so much a religion as a guide to a system of political organisation , and as time went on , it too fell victim to divisions and disputes . |
| 8 | Yet if we reflect a moment , we may realize that it is not so ingenuous after all . |
| 9 | But now , she thought , I know that it is not so . |
| 10 | Fumaroli 's contribution to this argument is to insist that it is not so much the market which has blurred cultural standards , as much as the queasy relativism and condescending egalitarianism of State funding of pop culture . |
| 11 | The significance of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066 hardly needs emphasis ; though we do well to recall that it was not so much William 's victory , as the fact that the two battles had removed his two most serious rivals for the throne , which made the year so decisive in English and Norman history . |
| 12 | I also believe that it is not so subject to all the particular points that the Lord suggests against it . |
| 13 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 14 | part of that section is valid , and we say and we pleaded that it 's not so forth |
| 15 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 16 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 17 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |
| 18 | Erm , four nine , the research of formal question letter , order form or contract , to my mind , quite honestly , a purchase order form is a contract from the client but erm , the quiff seemed to think that it was n't so , I do n't know whether it 's worth changing this , depends how the auditors form . |
| 19 | I know in New York it is wealth that counts , but I am pleased to say that it is not so everywhere . |
| 20 | Alternatively it has been suggested that it is not so much the school effect which is important as the curriculum which is followed . |