Example sentences of "be not [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am not so much angry , she decided , as upset at being misunderstood , at this complete and utter disregard of my situation . |
| 2 | In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 4 | Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when someone 's been caving as long as he has . |
| 5 | Smaller eels are not too much of a problem , but as their size increases , the options are few . |
| 6 | In a novel where expectations are not so much unfulfilled as positively spited , Shatov 's future , his hope , suffers simple tragic extinction with his murder . |
| 7 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 8 | The problems with the vehicle are not so much with the engine ( Murray Smith 's script ) as with the bodywork ( Anthony Wilkinson 's direction ) . |
| 9 | Watching on TV and taking part are not so much mutually exclusive as part of a balanced human cycle of passive and active involvement . |
| 10 | Mr Smith 's problems are not so much physical , apart from Chamberlain 's injured knee , but how to prepare his players for tomorrow 's important Second Division promotion game at Tranmere . |
| 11 | They are not so much ‘ on the march ’ — where are their jackboots , eagle emblems and other traditional paraphernalia ? — as shambling along in worry or despair . |
| 12 | They are not so much gods as supermen and superwomen — more basking shark than Cerberus , to return to our Loch Ness analogy . |
| 13 | In this context they are not so much cleaning agents as ‘ brighteners ’ and would benefit from being described as such . |
| 14 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Your own death : If they are honest , most people are not so much afraid of being dead as they are of the way they arrive at that state . |
| 18 | They can be exhausting and exasperating , and parents often feel they are not so much raising a lamb as training a tiger . |
| 19 | In contrast , the proposals for indicative drug budgets are not so much wrongly conceived as incomplete . |
| 20 | The considerations here are not so much juridical as ethical . |
| 21 | In my experience most A&R guys are not so much unhelpful as just plain uninterested ; the ones showing interest perform the most agile of U-turns as quickly as a week later . |
| 22 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 23 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 24 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 25 | Modern writers and newcomers are not so much at home in the world of the major private presses . |
| 26 | These changes are not so much concerned with the frequency or duration of ironing behaviour as with the precise form of the behaviours which make up ‘ ironing ’ . |
| 27 | Adding to the ‘ are they or are n't they ’ downsizing dispute , Hewlett-Packard Co 's UK marketing manager , Nick Earle , claims users are not so much ditching their mainframes wholesale as running core applications on mainframes and installing others on mid-range systems . |
| 28 | These are not so much movies as big-budget episodes of Crimewatch UK . |
| 29 | In this section we are not so much concerned with how many pounds are ‘ in the pay packet ’ , i.e. what is earned , but rather with the general conditions of employment experienced by the manual and non-manual sectors . |
| 30 | 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 . |