Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] a question " in BNC.

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1 The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize .
2 When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going .
3 However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ .
4 This has been not so much a question of exegesis but of hermeneutics , searching for the underlying meaning and background to the understanding and belief in the demonic world ( see Carr 1981 ) .
5 It 's not so much a question of pushing the music as finding the way to let it pull the listener through .
6 Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction .
7 It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful .
8 ‘ It was not as much a question of whether we would take a new step in our computerisation , but if we would subcontract it out , ’ said Olivier and Xavier Decelle , Picard 's president and managing director , respectively , in an article in Les Echos .
9 Using example A , it is not then simply a question of allocating each former partner a salary of £48,168 ( i.e. £60,000–£11,832 ) .
10 It is thus no longer a question of being able to produce a new concept of history , which , as Derrida puts it , ‘ is difficult , if not impossible , to lift from its teleological or eschatological horizon .
11 But it is also very much a question of medium and size .
12 It was no longer just a question whether reason and science could tolerate divine intervention in the apparently stable and unalterable laws of the universe ; the new and more insidious question was whether the universe had required a creator in the first place .
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