Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] so [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little sunlit thing had some numen ; or not so much a divinity , as a having known divinity , in it ; of being ultimately certain . |
| 2 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 3 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 4 | Christiana 's journey with her four children and her friend Mercy to find her husband Christian and the Celestial City has been described by Ronald Knox as not so much a pilgrimage as a walking-tour . |
| 5 | With reference to the official statistics , Durkheim did this first of all by regarding the rates compiled by officials in the pursuance of their routine duties as not so much a simple factual registration of certain types of death , but as indicators of a " suicidogenic " current caused by various states of society itself . |