Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 2 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 5 | 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 . |