Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 2 | In fact , these powers were not so extraordinary by local standards ; Russia 's reformers have asked for much the same . |
| 3 | Sir Ralph Halpern of Burton Group and John Gunn of British and Commonwealth were not so fortunate . |
| 4 | John Lennon and President Sadat were not so fortunate … |
| 5 | Others were not so fortunate . |
| 6 | Others were not so fortunate , and the Director of the Laban Centre had to give up membership because of the pressure of time . |
| 7 | The giants were not so tall ( were the dwarfs therefore shorter too ? ) . |
| 8 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 9 | Labour 's prescription for the British economy would be risible , if it were not so dangerous . |
| 10 | We Tory MPs were not so sure . |
| 11 | Roger Clays , NatWest regional senior sales manager , said research by the bank and the Department of Trade and Industry showed that most businesses were well aware of the single market but were not so sure about its impact . |
| 12 | When we were drawn against both England and Holland , people were not so sure but after the European Championship finals , those fears have gone . ’ |
| 13 | Four of his colleagues were not so sure , feeling that , in a society scarred by discrimination , the sheer nastiness of some forms of thought had to be taken into account . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if ‘ the nation ’ — any nation — were not so vulnerable , its professional defenders could not skim off so much of its wealth as protection money . |
| 15 | Others were not so convinced that John Gould , ‘ a mere museum man ’ , was up to the challenge . |
| 16 | It is important to note that these young men were not so much-pro-Japanese or anti-British as intensely Burman . |
| 17 | Farmers elsewhere were not so enamoured of the idea . |
| 18 | Issuers wish Moody 's and S&P were not so powerful : more competition among credit-raters might limit the damage caused by one bad rating . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 20 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 21 | When one man with a tiny congregation has the cure of 13,000 souls , it is a joke , or it would be if it were not so sad . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it 's like foreign lagers becoming quite popular in this country , English beers have a growing reputation abroad , ’ he added.Although the Italians liked the taste of Tolly 's 1048 Cantab beer , they were not so impressed with the brewery 's taste in labels.The controversial naked lady , the Bacchante , on the label of Cantab beer , had already been described by Cambridge students as ‘ sexist ’ and the Italians felt it was ‘ not very English ’ . |
| 23 | While Byrne considered that Caroline Spurgeon 's " imagery analysis " offered a way out of the stylistic nightmare , critics of the English " establishment " were not so impressed , as Francis Mulhern has noted : |
| 24 | The stewards , however , were not so impressed and banned User Friendly 's jockey for four days ( beginning November 14 ) for excessive use of the whip . |
| 25 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 26 | Nights when ops were on were not so hectic now that the boys did not have the long runs to Berlin and Nuremburg , just specific targets in France and western Germany . |
| 27 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 28 | Realities were not so simple , men neither so cynical , nor so naive . |
| 29 | Dry and tinned stores were issued readily , but meat , vegetables and fruit were not so easy to procure , and often I went out into the surrounding villages to buy up food which normally would have come into the Maymyo bazaar . |
| 30 | Some comments could be dealt with readily by changes to the draft statutory instruments but others were not so easy to resolve as they raise more fundamental questions and in these cases my officials were able to explore with the auditing practices board , whether issues could be more easily addressed in the statement of auditing standards which is being developed to accompany the legislation than in the statutory instruments themselves . |