Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] not so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 2 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 3 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |
| 4 | Most of this information comes not so much from what is happening but from what is not happening . |
| 5 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 6 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 7 | This is because even a so-called tangible asset represents not so much a physical item as the rights to use that physical item , which in turn derive from ownership or other rights . |
| 8 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 9 | ( c ) The removal of the unenforceable provision does not so change the character of the contract that it becomes " not the sort of contract that the parties entered into at all " . |
| 10 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 11 | However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year . |
| 12 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |