Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] a case " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 9 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |