Example sentences of "[verb] not so [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 2 | The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions . |
| 3 | The continued advertising and promotion of tobacco should be strenuously resisted , yet the government has not so far seemed inclined to upset the tobacco lobby . |
| 4 | The Commission has not so far brought the matter to the European Court of Justice . |
| 5 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 6 | Probably they had not so much disappeared as retreated , with the local dialect , into the private and unofficial underworld of non-literate culture . |
| 7 | Note that we have not so far specified the wire thickness of either ring . |
| 8 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 9 | WE HAVE NOT SO FAR MENTIONED one of Dr Carey 's most important responsibilities . |
| 10 | efforts to introduce literacy have not so far examined the question as to when it is right for particular students to begin reading and writing |
| 11 | Though they have not so far emulated the economic success of other Asians , they share many of their qualities . |
| 12 | We have not so far introduced the length of each step into our expressions . |