Example sentences of "is not [adv] [det] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 3 | If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is . |
| 4 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 5 | Each one had to be made to feel that they were noticed , for as Eugénie said , it is not so much that Princes are surrounded by flatterers as that they themselves must be ever ready to flatter others : |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not so much that police behaviour has deteriorated as that public expectations have risen . |
| 7 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 8 | Maybe it is for myself I mind , rather than for him ! 'T IS not so much that Richard is bound for sanctuary — as that I am denied such privilege . |
| 9 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 10 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 11 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 12 | The real danger facing Russia is not so much that Mr Yeltsin will lose the constitutional war . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 14 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 15 | The most common criticism of the arts and the most strongly expressed , however , was that they are ‘ useless ’ , that is not so much that they are useless to society , but that they are useless to the individual . |
| 16 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 17 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 18 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 19 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 20 | For , as Kalven and Zeisel noted , often when juries acquit of rape , their ‘ stance is not so much that involuntary intercourse under these circumstances is no crime at all , but rather does not have the gravity of rape . ’ |
| 21 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 22 | It is not so much that those buyers who actually consume the Qm units are having to pay the higher price Pm for them , since the higher price represents the value to them of the marginal unit bought . |
| 23 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 24 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Now the important thing about the toxin is not so much that it can paralyse its victim , but that biologists can use it , and they can use it because it 's possible to label the toxin radioactively and then employ this to look at the distribution of receptors in patients with miocenia and characterise the receptors in other ways . |
| 26 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |