Example sentences of "be [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are places where the residents are seen not so much as customers but as ‘ them ’ . |
| 2 | Significantly , the key decisions in containing these disturbances were afterwards said to have been made not so much by the Shah as by his prime minister , Assadollah Alam , vital figure in the development of Iran in the sixties and seventies . |
| 3 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 4 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 5 | the external design is nevertheless made everywhere to result from the necessities of the interior : the positions of the windows are decided not so much with regard to external effect , as with reference to the rooms they light ; and even the heights of stories will be found to vary in parts to suit internal convenience . |
| 6 | Moreover , and this concerns policy-makers at least as much as teachers themselves , where certain dilemmas remain unresolvable because they are rooted not so much in particular classroom strategies as the inbuilt limitations of the generalist class teacher system , the professional , political and resource implications must be squarely faced . |
| 7 | Christian thinking has been affected not so much by specific doubts as by the general concept of doubting which is entertained today . |
| 8 | First , as Mercer and Julien remind us , such an equivalence tends to obscure exactly those differences which need to be addressed if we are to understand not only each kind of discrimination separately but also their interconnections ( ‘ Race , Sexuality and Black Masculinity ’ , 99 — 100 ) . |
| 9 | In the latter class may be included not only those which deflect a river such as the spit at Shoreham , Sussex , and Orford Ness , but also the bars and spits which often form across bays . |
| 10 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 13 | She seemed to be asking not so much to save herself as because of some instinct for the men 's friendship . |
| 14 | Alternatively payment might be made to the head of the department concerned , or money might be spent not so much in buying the office itself as on the influence necessary for securing it . |
| 15 | There we shall be dealing not so much with direct applications of linguistic theory as with extensions or analogies of it . |
| 16 | If there are problems with illiterate families or reluctant parents , their difficulties can be tackled not so much through decisions about resource and direction as through guidance and persuasion . |
| 17 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 18 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 19 | He argued that the kinds of jobs which young people eventually did were determined not so much by the development of their inner drives , as by the structure of opportunities by which they were surrounded — the kinds of jobs which were available for them to do in the labour market . |
| 20 | International interest in Manchester 's system has been created not so much by the hardware as by the partnership involved between the public and private sector — the Greater Manchester Metro consortium includes GEC-Alsthom Transportation Projects , Mowlem , Amec , Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and Greater Manchester Buses . |
| 21 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 22 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 23 | Here the focus is placed not so much upon the continued presence of irrationality , for irrationality after all is simply reason 's own excluded but necessary negative other , but rather on the possibility of other logics being imbricated within reason which might serve to undo its own tendency to domination . |
| 24 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 25 | ‘ However , a business corporation is organized not so much for industrial warfare as for the production of goods or services for consumers and sustenance for its own members . |
| 26 | Sometimes the political ambivalence about a policy is reflected not so much in the policy itself as in the constraints that are set upon the implementation process . |
| 27 | We are witnessing only the latest episode in that long history , in which geography itself has been remade , and the landscape , now more than ever , is transformed not so much by the efforts of individuals , as by public policy and the stroke of a pen . |
| 28 | In this volcanic region the Byzantine influence is shown not so much in construction as in decoration , which displays diaper designs and striped polychrome inlaid in lava and red and white stone . |
| 29 | St Paul and the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews are primarily responsible for that , but their judgement is derived not so much from Genesis as from Jewish writings of the period between the Old and New Testaments which turned Abraham into a plaster saint . |
| 30 | The interest is derived not so much from what the company achieved over the past 12 months , as for one small omission . |