Example sentences of "[adj] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps some of your problems are not technical so much as aesthetic . |
| 2 | I would n't be embarrassed so much as angry . |
| 3 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |
| 4 | His face bore the marks of much , not always peaceful meditation ; the look of it not bland or benevolent so much as close impregnable and hard . |
| 5 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 6 | To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty . |
| 7 | African so much as African vs . |
| 8 | You do not feel competitive so much as creative and co-operative . |
| 9 | This , however , would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement , ie it was nice when the pressure stopped . |