Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] so [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 2 | The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice . |
| 3 | Disorder in the Chamber or the galleries — or even the blazoning of slogans — has not so far created the problems that some had feared . |
| 4 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 5 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 6 | In this case , although people were selective about which bits of the past they emphasized ( concentrating on state-renouncing ) , they did not so much reinterpret the past in the light of their present preoccupations ; rather , they polished an idealized account of rights , with their ancestors as heroes of duty . |
| 7 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 8 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |
| 9 | Note that we have not so far specified the wire thickness of either ring . |
| 10 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 11 | efforts to introduce literacy have not so far examined the question as to when it is right for particular students to begin reading and writing |
| 12 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |
| 13 | We have not so far introduced the length of each step into our expressions . |
| 14 | THE LAST 10 days or so have not so much shaken the world as utterly changed it . |