Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] not so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 4 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |
| 5 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 6 | With him art does not so much represent nature as human nature creates through art . |
| 7 | If interpreted in this light , the argument becomes not so much an onslaught on the idea of identity as an attack on the idea of empirical things as basic particulars . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 10 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 11 | His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric . |