Example sentences of "much [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other . |
| 8 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 9 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
| 10 | The reason for this difference is very much because of its funding : set up as a developmental project it needed to test the market for its services without putting too many financial obstacles in the way of the users of the services . |
| 11 | Just In Time is a great demo , not so much because of original ideas ( there are hardly any ) , but the excellent execution of the routines make it well worth a gander . |
| 12 | Out in the Weald , it is probable that wood rather than stone was still used , not so much because of local backwardness as of the easy availability of building materials . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As much because of what is left unsaid as because of what is directly described , The Albatross is one of those exceptions which suggest that the junior adventure story has always suffered under unnecessary limitations : the names that stand out in the genre are those who in various ways have ignored or overridden these limitations . |
| 18 | They no longer speak , she says , not so much because of the Lady Illingworth fraud , but because of ‘ differences ’ . |
| 19 | The tariff issue was therefore full of danger for Baldwin , not so much because of its content as because it could be exploited by those who wished to build up discontent against the spirit of ‘ Safety first ’ . |
| 20 | Gregory XI , who became pope in 1370 , at once initiated peace moves , following which negotiations were conducted at Bruges in 1374 and 1375 ; unfortunately , as much because of English obstinacy as of French , only a truce until April 1377 was effected , while all the time the French threat grew more menacing , with the consequence that papal efforts again incurred suspicion . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | the claim is hard to substantiate , not so much because of Nietzsche 's professed lack of " literary ambition " ( a somewhat disingenuous profession in any case ) , but for want of any decisive evidence in , for instance , the copious private notes surviving from his first years at Basle . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | I want to do it as much because of him , because he did n't get the chance to do it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I may not be able to say very much to the mother and her kids , but I sympathise with them so much because of what my own family went through , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Land Rovers do not self centre very much because in common with most beam axled four wheel drive vehicles they do not have much of a caster angle on the front axle . |