Example sentences of "n't [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 2 | The Bentley Turbo R is n't so much a hero as the entire cavalry . |
| 3 | This time it was n't so much a reflex action , an attempt to remove something nasty somewhere down his windpipe , as a deliberate social signal . |
| 4 | The Bally cotton 10 is n't so much a race , as a festival for the people of the tiny seaside village in County Cork . |
| 5 | Eddie Murphy 's Boomerang is n't so much a comeback after recent failures as a career rethink , deliberately designed to show Fast Eddie easing up and losing the street hustle — coming on , in fact , like a black Cary Grant . |
| 6 | This is n't so much a brave new world , more a retrained version of the old one . |
| 7 | There was n't so much a noise as a change in the type of silence . |
| 8 | He was n't so much a boyfriend as a boy who was one of my friends . ’ |
| 9 | In the end it was n't so much an assassination as a massacre , with 6,121 of the 7,098 American apple varieties that blossomed last century now extinct . |
| 10 | He reported that Marlon Brando refused to play scenes with him during the shooting of Mutiny on the Bounty , although it 's never been quite clear if this story is n't perhaps just a bit of blarney from the Irish hellraiser . |
| 11 | Sex is n't just about an animal urge . |
| 12 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 13 | She read about the Battle of Britain ; and it was n't any longer an old man 's war , dear to her father 's heart , and a cause , in earlier days , of much laughter and secret nods and winks between she and her brother . |
| 14 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 15 | ‘ Oh is n't there rather a lot of water up there ? ’ |
| 16 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , is n't that just a nice little coincidence ? ’ |