Example sentences of "[adv] so [det] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leader 's message was that winning the next election depended not so much on her as on us . |
| 2 | But if you accept that carbon dioxide is a much More insidious threat and nuclear power is the one major supplier of energy that does not produce it , the issue begins to turn not so much on the dangerous unacceptibility of reactors but on how you regulate and make them safe and ensure that their fuel is not diverted for military purposes . |
| 3 | Rather than establish a separate organization to administer the fund , it would probably be better to leave aid of that nature to the World Bank and bilateral and regional agreements , the more so since an issue like controlling carbon dioxide emissions may come to depend not so much on targets and dates agreed under a protocol to the climate convention as on the speed with which programmes to introduce cleaner forms of energy ( possibly including internationally supervised nuclear energy ) can be funded and implemented . |
| 4 | This boy , in spite of a studious shyness with most adults and many girls , had somehow acquired a self-confidence based , not so much on achievement in games or school work , but on a sense of the rightness of what he was doing with his own free time . |
| 5 | But the distinctions drawn by English law were , till the passing of the Property Acts , which came into force on 1 January 1926 , founded , not so much on the nature of the subject matter , as upon the historical accidents in the development of the English law of property . |
| 6 | His attack was not so much on ‘ Gothic ’ decorations but on the cruciform pattern with columns , aisles and a chancel . |
| 7 | The combined effect of these provisions is that the question of whether or not a child has special educational needs depends not so much on the child 's specific needs considered in isolation , but rather on the appropriateness or otherwise of existing provision . |
| 8 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 9 | However , despite some lip-service to the rights of schools to determine their own curriculum , on the whole those who argue against centralist control of schools do so not so much on grounds of loss of freedom for schools as on grounds of the consequent loss of local power . |
| 10 | The argument herein has been to point to a range of images , which focused not so much on sociological types ( conformist and delinquent behaviour ) , but on those pertaining to occupations , education , and the psychological state of ‘ personality ’ . |
| 11 | In his obituary in The Stage , the writer pertinently remarked that ‘ People die not so much on account of their age or that they are worn out , but because of the loss of their lifelong associates . ’ |
| 12 | That 's a lot of time on the flat stages , not so much on the fierce and extended mountain climbs that are to come . |
| 13 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 14 | Whether they eat or not in such cases will depend not so much on the food itself as on their varying mood . |
| 15 | Their prosperity depended , however , not so much on their skill as on a distinctly artificial market situation in the years around 1800 which even made Sussex corn-growing profitable . |
| 16 | In any assessment of evangelistic effectiveness the church growth movement stresses the need to focus attention not so much on decisions registered but on disciples made . |
| 17 | The other reason was that a paternity suit had recently been brought against my opponent by one of the Council office cleaners , which caused a great deal of moral indignation — not so much on the poor woman 's behalf , I 'm afraid , as because it was felt he had ‘ lowered himself ’ . |
| 18 | For though conflict arises often from the aggressive attitudes of others , it feeds not so much on this as on the learned and unlearned responses of our inner world . |
| 19 | Its focus is not so much on the individuals who work and produce as on the production process , and this rather impersonal and abstract approach makes it difficult or even unnecessary to look for any exclusion of women , although this occurs . |
| 20 | And it 's always worth remembering about the Crimean erm episode that Austria in essence intervenes on the side er er intervenes not so much on the side of Britain and France but against Russia . |
| 21 | However , these were leaders whose strength rested not so much on their control of the machinery of party as on their skill as exceptional political manipulators . |
| 22 | Candidates are required to sell themselves to the voters not so much on the strength of their stands on the issues as on their personal qualities . |
| 23 | Banking debts and death duties owed not so much on the estates ( which under German law enjoy tax concessions designed to hold historic estates together ) , but on business investments , have led the Dowager Fürstin , Gloria , to decide to sell . |
| 24 | Here ANDES placed emphasis , not so much on the exploitation of women as objects but on the general level of exploitation of Salvadorean women from the poorer classes . |
| 25 | Would not their votes tend to cumulate not so much on the best candidates as on the best-known ? |
| 26 | Programmers began to realize that the effectiveness of their work depended not so much on the particular format they had adopted as on the disciplined care with which their work was planned and executed . |
| 27 | However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed . |
| 28 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 29 | Meanwhile we should stop pretending that we live in a golden age of literary biography , an art form that all too frequently seems to be founded not so much on spite , as on a fundamental lack of interest in its subject . ’ |
| 30 | Er not so much on Street because they tend to stand near the flats . |