Example sentences of "not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things are not so simple , as some art historians write well about the present , with a generosity of feeling and approach enriching to contemporary culture . |
| 2 | In a book called How to Appreciate Pictures by R. C. Witt , written in 1902 , the chapter headings are not so different : drawing , colour , light and shade , composition , treatment , methods and materials . |
| 3 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 4 | The reverse of the coin is internationalism , a feature , some might say , of twentieth-century art ; not so uncommon either in other periods , where art historians struggle heroically to identify differences between the art of one country and another . |
| 5 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 6 | One noticeable feature of American art life is the link between art historical teaching and criticism , not so common elsewhere . |
| 7 | The theory is not so useful in defining the quality or strength of responses , and is no help in analysing the interactions of responses . |
| 8 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most ‘ modern ’ of the Restoration writers is George Farquhar ; period artifice is not so obtrusive in his plays , the best known of which are The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem . |
| 10 | Major roles for older women are not so common in Shakespeare , but I think it is better not to choose a character such as Queen Katherine from Henry VIII , who needs a richness of seniority to convey the dramatic interest . |
| 11 | Romeo is a good choice , and there are many speeches to look over and consider , but think also about the not so familiar young lover Troilus ; Bassanio , Lorenzo and Graziano , from the Merchant of Venice all make good choices too . |
| 12 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 13 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 14 | I 'm not so sure about drama schools , sometimes . |
| 15 | That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known . |
| 16 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |
| 17 | Not so glass . |
| 18 | The distance between them , he wrote , is not so much great as unbridgeable . |
| 19 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |
| 20 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 21 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 22 | Not so much an eye as a template . |
| 23 | Not so much an object as a place where , the means by which , the past can be called up , the future foretold ? |
| 24 | Perhaps we 're not so bothered about value for money after all . |
| 25 | It is not so long till some bushes are there . |
| 26 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 27 | This little old lady is not so innocent as she seems . |
| 28 | Angel Nay , look not so glum ! |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not so sure about Thomas , ’ said Ethel , ‘ but she 'd have stuck to her own circle . |
| 30 | Not so , though . |