Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution . |
| 2 | My own investigation into the organisation of written texts at lower secondary level ( Harris , 1980 ) points to the occurrence of a range of sharply differentiated linguistic features that vary not so much with subject areas but with what appear to be fundamental text types . |
| 3 | A.Berlin , for example , affirms that " there is no qualitative difference between the so-called " fixed " pairs and pairs that have not so been labelled . |
| 4 | These minerals are relatively insoluble and act not so much as direct plant foods , but put the soil in a state that favours the buildup and activity of soil life . |
| 5 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 6 | Mineral and other non-biological resources are present but have not so far been exploited ; for surveys of mineral potentials , see Holdgate and Tinker ( 1979 ) and Gjelsvik ( 1983 ) . |