Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 2 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 3 | The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thereafter , and notably from the 1780s , the company had to make recourse to fresh stock issue not so much to raise fresh working capital but to release it from debt . |
| 6 | These minerals are relatively insoluble and act not so much as direct plant foods , but put the soil in a state that favours the buildup and activity of soil life . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The differences between the sites lie not so much in the dust , which has a broadly similar composition at all sites , but in the rocks . |
| 9 | But you seem not so much angry , as succumbing to memories , drowning in them , leaving this world behind … |
| 10 | My own investigation into the organisation of written texts at lower secondary level ( Harris , 1980 ) points to the occurrence of a range of sharply differentiated linguistic features that vary not so much with subject areas but with what appear to be fundamental text types . |
| 11 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 12 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 13 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 14 | Groups can — and usually do — exist not so much by rejecting outsiders as by accepting insiders . |
| 15 | Curriculum developers aim not so much to " cover a given area of knowledge " as to convey basic concepts , teach relevant skills , and create an appetite for , and the ability to pursue , further research and enquiry at later stages . |
| 16 | Well I think not so much about when Hastings was there . |
| 17 | At the same time , we shall be able to identify features of style which belong not so much to the subject , as to James 's characteristic way of handling it . |
| 18 | When nookey is in the offing bosoms do not so much swell as burst over the lace like a pair of dumplings rising to the surface of a casserole pot . |
| 19 | It is true that everyone needs to eat to stay alive , but biological requirements of this sort are too ‘ basic ’ to have much explanatory power ; we do not so much wish to understand why societies produce food as why they produce different kinds of food in different ways . |
| 20 | Or rather , they do not so much dance as cling to one another , rocking drunkenly with the tide . |
| 21 | Yet , over the space of two days while waiting for Ryder to appear , guitarist Mark Day shows me his holiday snaps of Barbados , drummer Gaz Whelan is more preoccupied with the hassles of having a broken foot , while PD and Paul Ryder do n't so much brag as baulk at the very mention of drugs , seeming far more at home with talk of ‘ middle-eights ’ , ‘ mixing desks ’ and ‘ jamming grooves ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't so much as breathe on her , ’ Leo warned coldly as he descended the stairs behind them . |
| 23 | This , I think , was the point that was trying to point out , about the Scottish system and the French system , that they have this independent investigating magistrates structure , so that erm , the police do n't so much become involved in one side of the case . |
| 24 | you can tell them off and then this , they do n't , they do n't so many things then |
| 25 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 26 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 27 | Savings come not so much from savings in manpower as from the reductions in working capital , higher production quality . |
| 28 | These often relate not so much to poor manual skills or dexterity , although they may be slower than usual in completing tasks , as to problems in maintaining drive and interest , in adhering to a regular timetable and in forming the relationships with fellow workers which are necessary to effective completion of work tasks . |
| 29 | He has obligations not merely to the students who come to him to read for a degree , but still more towards the teeming population outside the University walls , most of whom have not so much as " heard whether there be any Holy Ghost " . |
| 30 | The questions today revolve not so much around the oblique references made by postmodern appropriation , an approach which reduces art history to a lexicon . |