Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 2 | This is because even a so-called tangible asset represents not so much a physical item as the rights to use that physical item , which in turn derive from ownership or other rights . |
| 3 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |