Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this instance it seems that the client needed not so much advice on a course of action as legitimation from its lawyer . |
| 2 | Such overseas business represented not so much diversification as a natural development of banking facilities to meet customer needs . |
| 3 | Its innovativeness did not so much lie in the originality of the separate ingredients but in the recipe itself . |
| 4 | This positivist and functionalist adaptation of the Mannheimian legacy did not so much stand Mannheim 's programme on its head as turn it inside out . |
| 5 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 6 | The movements did not so much drift apart as come to represent opposed interests . |
| 7 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 8 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 9 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 10 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |