Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] not so much " 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 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 3 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 4 | This view of assessment concentrates not so much on end of unit tests nor results in an external exam ( such as in former S.C.E. ‘ O ’ Grades ) , but on assessment as an on-going and integral part of the learning and teaching process . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The denial does not so much refute prospective criticism as pay danegeld to it . |
| 8 | Either way , tuning smartdrv depends not so much on where it is started from , but the parameters that are used to specify the amount and type of memory that it will use . |
| 9 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 10 | Borrowing an idea from the fiercely competitive US market , ITN has made McDonald the sole anchorman but his role seems not so much to read the news as to make it simple for the viewer before the reporter fills the story out . |
| 11 | Consideration means not so much that one party is profited as that the other abandons some legal right in the present , or limits his legal freedom of action in the future , as an inducement for the promise of the first . |
| 12 | Where the female chooses not so much the male as what the male 's got is erm female choice as I said when Darwin suggested was widely ridiculed , partly because i it , it contradicted Victorian prejudices . |
| 13 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 14 | Most of this information comes not so much from what is happening but from what is not happening . |
| 15 | Prince does n't so much build bridges between categories as create music that exceeds each category simultaneously . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because of this , what we see on the screen seems not so much acting as existing . |