Example sentences of "not so [adv] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 2 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 3 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 4 | It 's not so much a style difference as how comfortable you feel , and where you have the handholds . |
| 5 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not so much a game show , more a study of psychology . ’ |
| 7 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 8 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 9 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |