Example sentences of "be not so [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , formal procedures are not so much an alternative as an adjunct to the informal collaboration which is such an important feature of the best primary schools ; and the part played by the head in securing the most productive mix of formal procedure and informal consultation/collaboration remains central . |
| 2 | Present troubles are not so much an outbreak of anarchy , as a return to normality , with all its faults … |
| 3 | This has been not so much a question of exegesis but of hermeneutics , searching for the underlying meaning and background to the understanding and belief in the demonic world ( see Carr 1981 ) . |
| 4 | For most Greeks , a political party has long been not so much the voice of an ideology , or even of a class , as a system of social protection . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'm not so much a guitarist ; I 'm more of a listener — still . |
| 6 | In the context of an employing organisation , this would imply that an individual 's major motivation would be not so much the job itself as the opportunity to mix with other people . |
| 7 | Thus it seems to be not so much the articulation of words per se that engages the right hemisphere in these patients but the spontaneous putting together of meaningful speech . |
| 8 | When he has inspired sympathetic coverage , the results tend to be not so much an exposition of Gironella 's achievements but belong to that particular branch of literature which uses works of art as a starting point for literary excursus . |
| 9 | In Britain the railways began in the 1800s , in Germany in the 1840s , but in invisible Poland the railways were not so much a network as the far flung provincial extensions of three distant empires . |
| 10 | Joan of Arc 's hallucinations were not so much the voice of God as the voice of some aberrant neurons in her temporal lobes . |
| 11 | Nobay ( 1970 ) in his econometric study concluded that low profits were not so much the cause of low levels of investment , but rather the result of slow expansion of manufacturing output , accentuated by stop-go policies . |
| 12 | We have shown that the objectives of the youth movement , the juvenile labour exchanges and the proposed continuation schools were not so much the creation of conformist youth as of the adaptable , efficient citizen , motivated by service , mediated by humanism , and morally conscious . |
| 13 | The new phrases were not so much an indication of the desire to con firm that a revolution in our attitude to young children and their learning had happened , but an attempt to proclaim it . |
| 14 | This is not so obviously the case with Caribbean Creoles and English : though from the point of view of British English speakers Creole may be different from all British English varieties in salient ways , it is not clearly a separate language for members of the Creole-speaking community . |
| 15 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 16 | However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ . |
| 17 | It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful . |
| 18 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 19 | Raine Spencer is not so much a person but a phenomenon . |
| 20 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 21 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 22 | In law , then , the essence of an act of God is not so much a phenomenon which is sometimes attributed to a positive intervention of the forces of nature , but a process of nature not due to the act of man and it is this negative side which deserves emphasis . |
| 23 | ‘ She is not so much a stargazer as someone who is interested in power — other people 's power , which is possibly the only reason she was attracted to David Mellor . |
| 24 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 25 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 26 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 27 | The italicised utterance is not so much a paraphrase as a summary . |
| 28 | The third ‘ qualification ’ to the simple arms-race is not so much a qualification as an interesting point in its own right . |
| 29 | John Clare testifies to the wholesale obliteration of landmarks , and the subsequent consciousness of alienation ; The Female Vagrant is not so much a poem by Wordsworth as a case-history . |
| 30 | The phrase ‘ innocent women and children ’ is not so much a slur on men as a way of infantilising women — classing them , with children , as helpless and passive victims incapable of political agency or moral judgement . |