Example sentences of "[adv] so much a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 32 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 33 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 34 | He had not worked out tactics to deal with what was not so much a surrender as a bid to form an immediate alliance . |
| 35 | The phrase ‘ innocent women and children ’ is not so much a slur on men as a way of infantilising women — classing them , with children , as helpless and passive victims incapable of political agency or moral judgement . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 45 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 46 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Not so much a smile , perhaps , as a slackening around his mouth . |
| 50 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 51 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's not so much a scheme … |
| 53 | The third ‘ qualification ’ to the simple arms-race is not so much a qualification as an interesting point in its own right . |
| 54 | It 's not so much a style difference as how comfortable you feel , and where you have the handholds . |
| 55 | This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes . |
| 56 | In law , then , the essence of an act of God is not so much a phenomenon which is sometimes attributed to a positive intervention of the forces of nature , but a process of nature not due to the act of man and it is this negative side which deserves emphasis . |
| 57 | ‘ Not so much a hole — ’ Fosdyke poured cream on his visitor 's apple crumble . |
| 58 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 59 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 60 | She clutched a hand to her ample bosom — actually not so much a bosom , more a shelf ( a cheap shot ) — and motioned that the phone was for me . |