Example sentences of "[adv] much [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 2 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 3 | He had not worked out tactics to deal with what was not so much a surrender as a bid to form an immediate alliance . |
| 4 | Lennox Lewis , as a man who did so much a fortnight ago to give boxing back its dignity , must be allowed to move from ringside tonight to ring next spring if heavyweight boxing is going to complete the process of rehabilitation . |
| 5 | This is not so much a criticism as a view shared by many , including MPs and key civil servants at the Welsh Office . |
| 6 | The italicised utterance is not so much a paraphrase as a summary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Richard seemed to me to have changed so much , become humourless and uncertain-tempered , a family man who grumbled because his socks were not mended and his shirts not ironed properly , so that I was slightly nervous of him and also resentful : I felt that I had become , in his eyes , so much a wife , that he would see my new involvement as a nice occupation for me , like embroidery or dressmaking . |
| 9 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 10 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 12 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 13 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 14 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 15 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 18 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 19 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 20 | For her , the trade of compositor was more an intellectual calling , not so much a craft and she found her work fascinating , reading as she went . |
| 21 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 22 | The third ‘ qualification ’ to the simple arms-race is not so much a qualification as an interesting point in its own right . |
| 23 | ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old . |
| 24 | His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric . |
| 25 | Catherine , Mary noted , was especially quick to challenge George 's generalisations by reference to a local situation : Mary herself kept not so much a watch as a guard over Hope 's words . |
| 26 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 27 | And what was tending to happen here , as the Scottish Typographical Circular regularly reported , was not so much a division of labour between women on straight setting and men on other processes , but rather the diversion of certain kinds of typesetting from the linesmen ( male piece-workers ) to the women , who were not only paid much less but who were also considered by some employers to be actually better at it . |
| 28 | It 's not so much a lack of generosity — a real miserliness . |
| 29 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not so much a scheme … |