Example sentences of "not so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly in secluded , well sheltered , and not so well ventilated gardens , the open centre — and perhaps also the planting distance between plants so that they do not merge and clash — is more important with Floribundas . |
| 2 | ‘ Not so good any more , is it , Mrs Sutherland ? ’ |
| 3 | Often , invoice discounting is more attractive to the larger companies that can manage their own sales ledgers , but it does expose the factor/invoice discounter to greater risks because it is not so closely involved in the client 's affairs . |
| 4 | ( As a legal aside , it appears that screen fonts are not so vigorously copyrighted — or at least protected — as the printer fonts . |
| 5 | It was not so ridiculously bizarre that it was unwearable but it was bad enough . |
| 6 | They are likely to be more closely related to past sexual and religious taboos which , because they are not as powerful in modern society , are not so immediately apparent to the younger counsellor . |
| 7 | Not so easily survivable , however , are the crude overridings of capable and honest scientists whose findings conflict with the preferences of their political bosses . |
| 8 | Foods like eggs , avocado pears and peanuts are not so easily recognizable . |
| 9 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 10 | The comparison is an unsatisfactory one since there are important differences in the life histories of the two species : male kittiwakes can breed for many more seasons , adult mortality is not so strongly age-dependent and females can fledge up to three young per year ( see Coulson , 1966 , 1968 ; Coulson & Wooller , 1976 ; Wooller & Coulson , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Zborowski 's constant , if precarious , backing had meant that Modigliani was not so desperately short of money . |
| 12 | However , for aspects of driving where memory for events is not so clearly necessary it may be surprisingly poor . |
| 13 | For them , making the legal contract of marriage may feel like a re-statement of a previous covenant and , therefore , not so emotionally decisive and fraught . |
| 14 | Not so visually exciting , but of considerable interest from an historical point of view , is the statue of the Man of Stone at No. 13 . |
| 15 | A 36″ × 18″ × 18″ or 36″ × 24″ × 24″ would be adequate but these are not so readily available . |
| 16 | Rules and customs can be changed overnight — and will be if they fail to meet needs — but motives , especially unconscious motives , are not so readily changeable . |
| 17 | But these truths were by no means self-evident at the time of their first suggestion , when they were not so readily acceptable . |
| 18 | High upon another roof-top , not so far distant , stood a tall dramatic-looking figure robed in black . |
| 19 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 20 | The situation in the three separate parts of the United Kingdom is not so radically different that it is appropriate to establish different crimes as part of the panoply of the law for dealing with offences in prisons . |
| 21 | The earlier deists were not so sharply aware of this gulf , and often believed themselves to be defending Christian faith by offering it a solid foundation . |
| 22 | Rosemary Sutcliff ( 1973 , p.308 ) has stressed that ‘ history is people — and people not so very unlike ourselves ’ . |
| 23 | " I am not so very used to calculating the tides , Mrs James , said Heinrich in a pleasant conversational tone . |
| 24 | Er I was , I think I 've got pictures about it somewhere or tha that was in the Evening Star not so very many years ago . |
| 25 | It was not so very much , after all , she might easily live another twenty years or more , and money was not endlessly elastic . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a lovely piano , and not so very much out of tune . |
| 27 | So the world of every creature is different to that of all others , sometimes greatly , sometimes by not so very much . |
| 28 | Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden . |
| 29 | With × 8 it is in the field with Iota and the Pi-Rho pair , and is obvious enough ; with × 12 it is not so very much inferior to M13 . |
| 30 | Floy looked with interest at the fields and pastures and thought that , although they were much larger than the ones on Renascia and the crops and vegetables were not quite the same , there was not so very much difference , really . |