Example sentences of "[not/n't] so obvious " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final , most outstanding feature of tropical forest — not so obvious to the casual visitor , but exceedingly important — is the sheer speed at which detritus ( leaf litter and dead animals ) is broken down by insects , fungi , and bacteria . |
| 2 | The purpose of the structure immediately outside the temple was not so obvious . |
| 3 | There are many topographical names which have lasted down to the present in a perfectly straightforward fashion ( the articles or toponymical qualifiers being dropped ) , such as Field , Bridge , Ford , Green , Lake , Lane , Orchard , Townsend , Gate and so on , but others are less obvious in their modern guises — Atwell and Attwood , Byfield and Byway are clear enough as examples in which the definite article has become assimilated , but others like Boveton = above town , and Binetheton — below town , are not so obvious at first sight , neither are Biart — dweller near the enclosure , Stanners = dweller at the stone house , or Leese = dweller by the pasture . |
| 4 | But it 's not so obvious which skills deliver the buzz |
| 5 | Stripes are not so obvious if the amounts of yarn are used in block sections ; for example , three colours can be worked as three plain areas ranging from dark to medium and then light . |
| 6 | Flaps conceal hiding places — obvious and not so obvious — and a detachable child 's figure can be moved around so the game can be played over and over . |
| 7 | Now with Barthes the answers are not so obvious . |
| 8 | THE WORST KIND OF HAZARDS ARE NOT SO OBVIOUS |
| 9 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 10 | The ‘ implications ’ of literacy are not so obvious nor so easily elicited or described as Goody suggests . |
| 11 | This process of exploitation is not so obvious as the direct payment of tithes or forced labour under feudalism , but it is still , according to Marx , economic exploitation . |
| 12 | And it is not so obvious that they are wrong . |
| 13 | Fewer do this in response to the next question , presumably because it is not so obvious an effect unless the required figures are being directly pointed at . |
| 14 | What is not so obvious is whether the vast sums of money that have been spent by central government and the local authorities on housing over the years have had much effect on reducing housing inequalities . |
| 15 | And maybe because I went to an all girls ' school , it 's not so obvious , you do n't see girls and boys walking hand in hand in the playground . |
| 16 | This kind of mismatch is not so obvious as the other , but it should not be forgotten , as it can cause difficulty in understanding . |
| 17 | If we put in actual thicknesses , the " axes " are not so obvious , but they are still there ( figure 3.2b ) . |
| 18 | But as the artist herself states , these images do not try to appeal to our erotic awareness , and that is perhaps why the intended commentary on the display of the female sex is not so obvious . |
| 19 | The reason we have a hierarchical organization of work is not only that tasks occur in lower and higher degrees of complexity — which is obvious — but also that there are sharp discontinuities in complexity that separate tasks into a series of steps or categories — which is not so obvious . |
| 20 | How you are going to get him there is not so obvious — so why do n't you accept him as he is and with the surroundings he now loves ? ’ |
| 21 | What is not so obvious is the converse of this , ie a reduction in road space can be used to reduce traffic speed and volume . |
| 22 | but , erm , some of the others are not so obvious , would divide in . |
| 23 | It is not so obvious that the second , negative claim of conventionalism also serves the ideal of protected expectations . |
| 24 | Erm if you have the just the question , and you 've got to work it out , it 's not so obvious . |
| 25 | and erm , you know , she , she obviously needs somebody else with her to make it not so obvious for her |