Example sentences of "[vb -s] not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 2 | The importance of television in US politics , it should be stressed , lies not so much in the paid media of political advertising as in the free media of news broadcasts . |
| 3 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 4 | Elvis 's importance , then , lies not so much in the mix of elements ( blues/country/Tin Pan Alley ) which he helped to bring into being in rock 'n' roll , but in what he did with it . |
| 5 | The road to an egalitarian society , therefore , lies not so much through the social services , even broadly defined and purposefully designed , but through changes in the economic and political institutions of the country which generate and shape inequality . |
| 6 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 7 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 8 | Disorder in the Chamber or the galleries — or even the blazoning of slogans — has not so far created the problems that some had feared . |
| 9 | it has not so far provided any really noticeable challenge to the Secretary of State 's views . |
| 10 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 11 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |
| 12 | The airline said they feared one of the dead was a British woman named Rebecca Gunner , who was known to be travelling on the flight but who has not so far been traced among the injured and rescued . |
| 13 | He has not so much brain as ear wax , ( Troilus and Cressida ) — to anyone slow on the uptake . |
| 14 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 15 | There , it has not so much been its Calvinism that has been welcome as its emphasis upon the inerrancy of Scripture . |
| 16 | Whatever the ultimate objectives , the fact remains that a good deal of the existing work within the comparative industrial relations field , although often rich and insightful , has not so far been explicitly theoretical in either its purpose or method ( Shalev , 1980a ) . |
| 17 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 18 | As things stand , sadly , Bailey , one of only 13 homegrown batsmen to begin the summer brandishing a career average in excess of 40 , has not so much tripped between two stools as toppled into a black hole . |
| 19 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 20 | Roman Haubenstock-Ramati ( b. 1919 ) used to be a prominent name in a certain music publisher 's catalogue , but his music has not so far achieved wide circulation , or extensive recording . |
| 21 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 22 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 23 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 24 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 25 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |
| 26 | To the people of his little island , two miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide , ‘ Isle of Muck ’ fetched a tailor from the mainland twice a year and a blacksmith from the Isle of Eigg ( Johnson has not so far reflected upon the name of the laird of Eigg ) . |
| 27 | The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | It is my impression that the Department of Transport has not so far been sympathetic to the potential plight of some of the preserved railways in Scotland . |
| 29 | Despite some speculation on the extent of their influence in shaping and informing defence policy this has not so far been subject to any systematic analysis . |
| 30 | Unexpectedly , however , L289 also reacted with a futehr peak of material that has not so far been identified in antral extracts and that emerged relatively late and did not correspond to one of the LW60 peaks . |