Example sentences of "'s not so [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not so much a question it 's a comment . |
| 2 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 3 | So it 's not so much a device to study in its own right , it 's a teaching aid in other words , a classroom aid . |
| 4 | Well it 's , it 's not so much a suggestion it 's more that you ca n't do multiplicational area until |
| 5 | We 'll go a little , trifle slower but rather than no it 's not so much a trifle slower as steadily . |
| 6 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |