Example sentences of "was not [adv] [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not particularly sad that the house was to be sold . |
| 2 | She was not only confident that a future session would reveal its origins , she was anxious to try again as soon as possible . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not therefore unexpected that the Thatcher government introduced legislation which reduced the amount of supplementary benefit payable to strikers and which made their trade union responsible for paying a higher amount of strike pay . |
| 8 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |