Example sentences of "be not [adv] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not so much gods as supermen and superwomen — more basking shark than Cerberus , to return to our Loch Ness analogy . |
| 2 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 3 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 4 | Such lavas resemble raspberry jam that is half pips ( or is it wood shavings they use ? ) ; they are not so much liquids as pasty mushes of solid material . |
| 5 | Even in the initial stages of the movement , when the painters still relied to a large extent on visual models , their paintings are not so much records of the sensory appearance of their subjects , as expressions in pictorial terms of their idea or knowledge of them . |
| 6 | These are not so much movies as big-budget episodes of Crimewatch UK . |
| 7 | Images of that immortal sea , of children sporting on the shore and the mighty waters rolling evermore , are not so much allusions to what brought us hither , as Wordsworth would have it , but reminders to book this year 's holiday to the Costa del Sol or the Bahamas . |
| 8 | These are not so much part of the ‘ inner voice ’ : in Cohen 's ( 1982 ) terms , they are perhaps more readily interpreted as the ‘ voice to the outside world ’ . |
| 9 | They are not so much status-based as functional , but they have an all-pervasive influence on the individual 's life far beyond the narrow functions which are their specific object . |
| 10 | One has to do with the fact that many theories in social science are not so much theories susceptible to straightforward empirical confirmation or refutation , but are more like points of view . |
| 11 | In this context they are not so much cleaning agents as ‘ brighteners ’ and would benefit from being described as such . |
| 12 | Well they 're not so much children actually they were about eighteen . |
| 13 | The sheep farm ( ‘ they 're not very much trouble ’ ) is a dream come true for Ruscoe , his wife and 15-month-old daughter ; the lucrative staff job with ICL removes the financial worries which can come with life on the land . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So kicking the cat , biting a towel or pounding a pillow are n't really much use , except for letting off steam . |
| 16 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 17 | Auntie said : " My eyesight 's as good as ever — well , better , really ; but my hands are n't so much use . " |
| 18 | The sides were not so much planks as squares of wood stuck on apparently at hazard . |
| 19 | And the projector 's arc lamps were not so much set as sunset , through a fog . |
| 20 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 21 | So not a good day for City , but they should n't lose heart , as the score line the home side , and on another day might well be reversed as they were not that much difference in the goals . |
| 22 | Obviously the result is dependent on there being not too much differentiation at the upstream stage , or the double marginalization effect of no linkage would dominate . |
| 23 | There were n't so much bickering were there ? |
| 24 | Its only drawback , apart from the slightly adulterated styling , is that the Carrera 4 is not as much fun to drive hard as the old 911 . |
| 25 | There is a tidal wave of crime in this country , and it does no good to the people of Cardiff , Sandwell and Westminster to say there is not as much crime there as in Chicago or Sydney . |
| 26 | I will pray there is not too much dust around . ’ |
| 27 | A game lasts 90 minutes , but you 're lucky if it 's 50 minutes actual playing time — and that is not too much time to run up a score . ’ |
| 28 | Write if all this is not too much trouble . |
| 29 | By the time you have put up an appropriate amount of cabinets and storage there is not usually much wall left to cover . |
| 30 | Clearly , there is not very much room to increase the burden of taxation . |