Example sentences of "[adv] much [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue is not so much whether or how far the sense of grievance or of legitimate right can be justified objectively but rather its potency as a force in the equation , just as an unwavering Jewish belief in the right to all Eretz Israel has proved indispensable to the achievements of Zionism . |
| 2 | * What is of importance here is not so much whether or not the label ‘ perceptual ’ is appropriate as whether this task is susceptible to the effects of pre-training in the same way as the motor tasks discussed earlier . |
| 3 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 4 | I think part of the thing about stress is n't so much whether it 's a chemical effect , but it 's a having a cigarette is a way of creating a wee break if you 're if you 're busy and as a , that can be really difficult for women to do , actually demand a bit of time for themselves . |
| 5 | The important question , though , is not so much whether such features are or are not objectively present , but what significance and function one should assign to them if they are . |
| 6 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 7 | You do n't enjoy things so much when you get older . ’ |
| 8 | You loved him so much when you were a little girl . |
| 9 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 10 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 11 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope that remark does n't imply that you would n't care so much if she was a nasty person . |
| 13 | Sleep is a great help to any illness , so sleep as much as you can . |
| 14 | As this list also reminds us , journalists seem to worry as much as sociologists about their proper analytical role . |
| 15 | After this phase of the experiment was over , subjects were allowed to sleep as much as they wished , but continued to keep sleep diaries for a year . |
| 16 | " I 'd like to sleep as much as anyone , but if we all sleep and something comes , who 's going to spot it ? " |
| 17 | speaking as much as possible like a native speaker |
| 18 | ‘ But somebody who cares as much as you do , you 'd want to know . ’ |
| 19 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 20 | I 'm the same , erm , I spend as much as time driving as I do sitting in stock |
| 21 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 22 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 23 | will ultimately apply utilitarian standard , but he does n't make much of it here and he relies on a much more intuitive idea of what manage things well and he assumes that different branches of government will have different standards of success and that we will be able to tell pretty much whether they 're doing well or badly . |
| 24 | Once we have this model , we will not worry too much whether what we 're into is presence , power , proclamation or whatever kind of evangelism . |
| 25 | At this stage we need not worry too much whether the material is glassy or crystalline and all we really need to know about the solid is the Young 's modulus and the surface energy . |
| 26 | Actually if you 've a complete number of repeats , it does n't matter too much whether it a full repeat or a half repeat at the edges , as both can be mattress stitched to give a continuous unbroken pattern effect . |
| 27 | Best to have too much than not enough . |
| 28 | ‘ Better to marry too much than not at all , ’ she said cryptically . |
| 29 | But if you 've got any more questions , I mean do n't hesitate to come back , because at the end of the day I 'd rather you know too much than not enough |
| 30 | Low level Goblin Shamans are cheap and , to a degree , disposable , so do n't worry too much when they fail their Waaagh test . |