Example sentences of "much because [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 2 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 3 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 4 | Our last recording was with the cellist António Meneses , which I admired very much because of the great beauty of line Meneses was able to bring to the epilogue . |
| 5 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 6 | This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits . |
| 7 | Although the decision has caused controversy , it is not so much because of the principles underlying the determination of a duty of care but mostly because of the House of Lords ' interpretation of the Companies Act responsibilities of auditors . |
| 8 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 9 | They no longer speak , she says , not so much because of the Lady Illingworth fraud , but because of ‘ differences ’ . |
| 10 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 11 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 12 | As we have already indicated , what has been ‘ lost ’ from the countryside has been the village as an occupational community , which has disappeared not so much because of the impact of the newcomers but because of the underlying changes in the economics of agriculture . |
| 13 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 14 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 15 | The ANC rejected the proposal , saying that the government was opposed to majority rule " not so much because of the principle involved but because of dissatisfaction with whom the majority will be " . |