Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] much [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're not so much looking to Wembley . |
| 2 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 3 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 4 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
| 5 | We are therefore not so much talking about a single meaning as a true one versus all the others which are false . |
| 6 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 7 | There was n't too much grumbling about the prices interestingly enough . |