Example sentences of "[adv] not so [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 2 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 3 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 4 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 5 | She clutched a hand to her ample bosom — actually not so much a bosom , more a shelf ( a cheap shot ) — and motioned that the phone was for me . |