Example sentences of "[adv] not so [adv] [art] [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 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 5 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 6 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 7 | 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 . |