Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 2 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 3 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 4 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 6 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 7 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 8 | The emphasis in the Lincolnshire scheme and in LMS under the 1988 Education Reform Act is not merely on financial management so much as the management of the total school resource . |
| 9 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 10 | Thus his erotic imagining of the usurping male is not the eruption of repressed homosexual desire so much as the fantasized , fearful convergence of identification and desire , precipitated by an actual convergence of their respective objects . |
| 11 | Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured , nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory . |
| 12 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 13 | What prompts a sanctioning rather than a compliance response is not who does the law enforcement so much as the sort of behaviour which is subject to control . |
| 14 | By this I do n't mean the need for physical help and practical advice so much as the longing for emotional reconciliation , a bonding with her . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 16 | Although such an incestuous fixation usually means genital inhibition for the individual in adult life , resulting either in perversion or neurosis or both and invariably in some unhappiness , incest in itself does not threaten the foundations of culture so much as the consequent erotic and aggressive antagonism to which it gives rise . |