Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where not long ago the forest was thought of as an ‘ enemy ’ , it is now a source of life and livelihood . |
| 2 | In this respect again , diplomacy , if not yet clearly a distinct profession , was on the way to becoming one . |
| 3 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |