Example sentences of "[adj] not [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head and neck covered with white down , with a creamy-white ruff at the base but this not easily visible in the field . |
| 2 | It is dependent not so much on the generous staffing levels of PNP Phase 1 ( though that obviously helped a great deal ) as on a combination of a degree of staffing flexibility and a basic preparedness to accept that this kind of role is important and needs to be built into a school 's staffing arrangements under whatever label is deemed appropriate . |
| 3 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 4 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 5 | Is that not just one of the many human rights being denied to Palestinians in the occupied territories , which have been illegally occupied by Israel for 24 years ? |
| 6 | The differences between Reich and Freud are concerned not so much with the desirability of sexual activity in youth so as to avoid later sexual disturbances , and therefore the need for change in the morality of that period , as with the consequences which could be hoped for as a result . |
| 7 | These constructions are the stuff of James 's psychological elaboration , since he is concerned not so much with the relation between persons and persons , or between persons and things , as between persons and psychological states and events . |
| 8 | In the most recent case , the court was concerned not so much with the deliberate communication of confidential information but rather with the danger posed by the " chance remark " or the " inadvertent " risk of leaking the information . |
| 9 | Like all professional photographers working for the city 's major advertising agencies , Tony Bowran 's diary offers few spaces for those not wholly involved with the business of photography . |
| 10 | Interest would be stimulated among those not directly involved with the test . |
| 11 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |