Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [adv] [det] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 2 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 3 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 4 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 5 | The criterion for admission was not so much that traditions vindicated an apostolic authorship as that the content of the books was in line with the apostolic proclamation received by the second-century churches . |
| 6 | It was not so much that she distrusted banks as the bother for the visit . |
| 7 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 8 | The point was not so much that impoverished art historians could no longer afford to make slides , but that in these post-formalist times , visuals get in the way of the real McCoy — abstruse and tendentious theorising . |
| 9 | Most ethical intuitionists came to think that what the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy established was not so much that good is indefinable as that ethical expressions are either indefinable or only satisfactorily definable in terms which involve some other distinctively ethical expression . |
| 10 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 11 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 12 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 13 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 14 | However , it is important to note that PNP provided the resources and framework for the considerable expansion and diversification of such courses between 1985 and 1990 : it was not so much that PNP was submerged as that PNP and primary provision became synonymous . |
| 15 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 16 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 17 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 18 | However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 . |
| 19 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 20 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 21 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 22 | But it was n't so much that she was scared as bewildered and full of shame , then ashamed of her tears and one thing hard-tailing the other her head fuzzed and the classroom swam . |
| 23 | It was n't so much that Kefalov appeared already to be a more sordid city than the capital , as that this particular city had n't been devastated at all . |
| 24 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 25 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't so much that she wanted to leave home . |
| 27 | Well I mean it 's Considering the number of s survivors , there was n't that many that were burnt . |