Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This rewriting of history was not so much a matter of starting again , but of making use , for a new purpose , of knowledge which was already available , whether in the work of philosophers like Hegel , economists like Ricardo , biologists like Darwin , or anthropologists . |
| 32 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 33 | It is not so much a matter of deciding in advance which activities and what kinds of adult input match the child 's level of development , either in terms of language or cognitive abilities ; rather , it is a matter of the adult being sensitive to the child 's changing communicative needs and adjusting her speech and actions from one moment to the next . |
| 34 | It is not so much a matter of praying together ( good though that is ) , but of being one in purpose and spirit . |
| 35 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 36 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 37 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 38 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
| 39 | Here one suspects that there is not so much a clash of ideology as one of gross distortion . |
| 40 | Counselling-learning is not so much a collection of ideas as a full and personal commitment on the part of the teacher . |
| 41 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 42 | It is not so much a book for reading as a book to which reference can confidently be made both on general matters and on points of detail . |
| 43 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 44 | It was not so much a feeling of disquiet as of expectation , almost pleasurable anticipation . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It 's not so much a reconstruction of image as proof that Shocked 's confidence is growing . |
| 47 | The new competition is not so much a contest among the strong and the weak all obeying Queensberry rules ; it is now just as much a contest among competing strategies . |
| 48 | And when we begin to gain , if only the merest glimpse of the deeply ingrained brutalities and prejudices embodied in what was judged to be ‘ right ’ , then we can see more clearly that the Garotter 's Act was not so much a moment of panic which led respectable England off its true course , but a mature expression of the existing social relations — including the self-assumption of the mighty , and their attitudes and actions towards the lower orders and the plebs . |
| 49 | The point should not be overemphasized , since on occasion this sense of duty was not so much a cause of action but a post hoc justification of it . |
| 50 | It is not so much a network of gift-giving as a network of indebtedness . |
| 51 | There was n't so much a noise as a change in the type of silence . |
| 52 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 53 | The Bentley Turbo R is n't so much a hero as the entire cavalry . |
| 54 | He was n't so much a boyfriend as a boy who was one of my friends . ’ |
| 55 | Eddie Murphy 's Boomerang is n't so much a comeback after recent failures as a career rethink , deliberately designed to show Fast Eddie easing up and losing the street hustle — coming on , in fact , like a black Cary Grant . |