Example sentences of "[modal v] be not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow , the ice , the frost , the winter winds , the wolves , might be not so much facts as symbolic images with which Irina sought to disguise what was innately disturbing about our childhood during those years before the war . |
| 2 | The question for many primary schools may be not so much one of content-coverage , as of ordering and sequencing events so that they are appropriately arranged across the child 's school year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The view that philosophical conceptions may be not so much ‘ universal ’ as ‘ male ’ is discussed further in the next paper . |
| 5 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 6 | In the context of an employing organisation , this would imply that an individual 's major motivation would be not so much the job itself as the opportunity to mix with other people . |
| 7 | This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) . |
| 8 | Rookies such as Lee Sharpe , Les Ferdinand and Gary Pallister are also named for a game in which defeat would be not so much unthinkable as indefensible for the beleaguered England manager . |
| 9 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 10 | Their main target will be not so much that gap at the lineout , or even the debatable inside arm requirement , assuming either is a target at all , but the turnover law . |
| 11 | Yet in the excitement of becoming a parent it is easy to forget that for some the impact can be not so dissimilar from that caused by the discovery of a rival lover . |