Example sentences of "not [adv] much [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 2 | Often their husbands are much older than them , not so much for traditional reasons as because men settled in Britain are considered of higher status and class and therefore , being more desirable as sons-in-law , they can find young brides . |
| 3 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 4 | It was this western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was so keen to get his hands on ; not so much for the Pilsener lagers , but for the Skoda machine plants and the iron and coal resources of Western Bohemia . |
| 5 | With his wife Glenys choking back tears beside him , he added : ‘ I naturally feel a strong sense of disappointment , not so much for myself for I am fortunate , very fortunate , in my personal life . |
| 6 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 7 | At local parties he was known not so much for his acting ability but for his great talent as a jazz pianist especially his impression of George Shearing . |
| 8 | When Johnston joined the republican movement in 1965 , at the invitation of Cathal Goulding , IRA chief of staff , he was probably some distance to the right of some existing members of the movement and he was responsible not so much for leading the movement to the left as for crystallising a more coherent political strategy . |
| 9 | This competition is not so much for food and territory as it is genetic . |
| 10 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 11 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 12 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Not so much for fame , but for money . |
| 15 | But Lukács 's importance here is not so much for his influence on the sociology of knowledge as for his merging of a Marxist conception of the relations between classes with concepts derived from the historicist tradition . |
| 16 | That diagnosis is not so much for therapeutic reasons as for administrative and management purposes . |
| 17 | This is not so much for reasons of hygiene , it should be added , but rather from fear of the pollution that can come from the demons of the dead , who are usually thought to harbour hostile feelings towards the living . |
| 18 | But he was burned in 1553 not so much for attacking Galen , as for attacking Calvin . |
| 19 | Newman accepted , not so much for financial reasons but because he found England , with its more polarised divisions of class and attitude , an irresistible challenge . |
| 20 | Initially what we should all do is go back and look at those draft guidelines for the registration of nursing homes and be prepared to pull them to pieces , not so much for what they are saying but for what they are not saying and ought to be saying in order to be relevant . |
| 21 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |
| 22 | He adores feeding , not so much for the food , but for the sucking experience . |
| 23 | He was important not so much for any positive achievement as for the unintended consequences of his purchases . |
| 24 | I was glad to accept the honour not so much for myself but for the cutter service as a whole when it was confirmed that I was to attend at Buckingham Palace the following summer . |
| 25 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 26 | Whatever the selection process might have been , we both know that proposing this motion is an honour , not so much for us as for our constituents . |
| 27 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 28 | Even quite old children will sometimes be seen at the breast , long after they have begun to eat an adult diet , sucking not so much for sustenance as for emotional consolation . |
| 29 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 30 | I think it reinforces the case , not so much for retaining the bobby in New Deer , but for increasing policing in country areas where crime is increasing just as much as it is in the towns . ’ |