Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] [adv] much [that] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 2 | The real danger facing Russia is not so much that Mr Yeltsin will lose the constitutional war . |
| 3 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 4 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 6 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 7 | For , as Kalven and Zeisel noted , often when juries acquit of rape , their ‘ stance is not so much that involuntary intercourse under these circumstances is no crime at all , but rather does not have the gravity of rape . ’ |
| 8 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 9 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |