Example sentences of "it be not [adv] much [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 2 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 3 | It 's not so much that it |
| 4 | And doing it 's not so much that you 're doing everything wrong , it 's just the one thing which being done right is that the other way of putting it that , the guy because he 's so well organized what effect does that have on everybody else then ? |
| 5 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 6 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 7 | Each one had to be made to feel that they were noticed , for as Eugénie said , it is not so much that Princes are surrounded by flatterers as that they themselves must be ever ready to flatter others : |
| 8 | Perhaps it is not so much that police behaviour has deteriorated as that public expectations have risen . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 10 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 11 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 12 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 13 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 14 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 15 | It is n't so much that the ultimate disappearance of the USM itself is particularly jeopardising the potential market for smaller companies . |
| 16 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 17 | But it was n't so much that she was scared as bewildered and full of shame , then ashamed of her tears and one thing hard-tailing the other her head fuzzed and the classroom swam . |
| 18 | It was n't so much that Kefalov appeared already to be a more sordid city than the capital , as that this particular city had n't been devastated at all . |
| 19 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't so much that she wanted to leave home . |
| 21 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 22 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 23 | It was not so much that she distrusted banks as the bother for the visit . |
| 24 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 25 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 26 | However , it is important to note that PNP provided the resources and framework for the considerable expansion and diversification of such courses between 1985 and 1990 : it was not so much that PNP was submerged as that PNP and primary provision became synonymous . |
| 27 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 28 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 29 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |