Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 2 | She seemed to be asking not so much to save herself as because of some instinct for the men 's friendship . |
| 3 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 4 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 5 | Held up and then taken wide , Moscow Sea was given far too much to do . |