Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the projector 's arc lamps were not so much set as sunset , through a fog . |
| 2 | Both these latter points , though Macdonald does not connect them , appear to lend some force to the arguments of Edinburgh employers that by the end of the century , they were not so much drawing extra work to Edinburgh as desperately trying to stem an inexorable decline of the Edinburgh trade , occasioned both by its geographical distance from London ( incurring freight costs and inconvenience , which would have affected bookbinding equally ) and by its comparatively high rents and cost of living ( as compared to country towns like Frome ) . |
| 3 | In North America these struggles were not so clear cut . |
| 4 | There were n't so much bickering were there ? |
| 5 | It were n't so long back that er John Major , when talking about er benefit , was quite surprised by the fact that er disabled erm claimants had rose by , well it had quad quadrupled in inside the Thatcher years . |
| 6 | were n't so lucky managing just 18.3 overs in reply to 166 . |
| 7 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 8 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 9 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 10 | But that ‘ type ’ was not so much anti-lesbian and gay as pro-family . |
| 11 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 12 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
| 13 | Here the problem was not so much party loyalty as the fact that parliamentary procedures no longer fitted into the timescale or permitted an understanding of current administration . |
| 14 | There was not so much business from significant large single customers , but it was basically well balanced both in the personal systems area and in the mid-range . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , it was not so much quarrelling . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was not so much disaster as disappointment . |
| 17 | Nationally what was needed was not so much cash as a rational development programme with long-term perspectives . |
| 18 | There was no what we call , ends on on the slate , you know going over the tip , there was not so much waste with them there as the new tables . |
| 19 | However , although one has some sympathy with Fleischmann 's point , and with hindsight might wish that more explicit details had been known , in reality this was not so clear cut . |
| 20 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 21 | It was n't so much fun nowadays , not since Frank and Salome Asmoyah , the black yuppy couple who used to have the flat above me , moved to their much plusher Limehouse pad complete with mortgage repayments delivered in envelopes with black edges . |
| 22 | It was really , there was n't so much fun in it , it was all more serious . |
| 23 | I think you find it with most West Indian parents … it was n't so much lack of enthusiasm , they just did n't have the time . |
| 24 | At least there was n't so much sky now . |
| 25 | By that time I was n't so much listening to that kind of stuff — I had gone through it and stopped . |
| 26 | Virtually but the laundry was there then there , there was n't so much room then you see . |
| 27 | CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION : IF IT WAS N'T SO SAD IT WOULD BE FUNNY |