Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not entirely clear whether an onlooker or third person is entitled to use force to assist another to resist unlawful police conduct .
2 And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice .
3 Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before .
4 They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change .
5 Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display .
6 His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience .
7 But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be .
8 While not as flexible as an overdraft or the Managed Rate Facility , they offer the advantages of : cheaper borrowing , especially as adding Barclays name to a bill provides you with the finest rates available on the Discount Market .
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