Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The problem is not necessarily just the massive increase in numbers of walkers and climbers , but the fact that people are daily dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to do on the hills for fun .
2 An in that case , now certain can the IRB be that admission to those World Cup matches will not only be freely available to , but will be as readily affordable , by the majority of South Africans , and not necessarily only the privileged few ?
3 ‘ Role conflict ’ is talked about , but this is not necessarily quite the same thing .
4 These are not necessarily merely the left-over business from a previous administration .
5 We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents .
6 " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . "
7 ‘ People do n't use pubs like they used to do and that 's the demise of the country pub , not so much the other things that have been said .
8 Not so much the screaming figures .
9 It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them .
10 Indeed , one might say , though a little misleadingly , that it is not so much the substantive topics which distinguish disciplines , but their theoretical interests .
11 Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals .
12 God not so much the Prime Mover we can do without him — but the God who understands what 's going on .
13 What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred .
14 Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial .
15 The influence of all three is perceptible in Nicholas Shakespeare 's first novel , though it is not so much the magical flights of Marquez as Greene 's Catholic mysticism which I found the most intriguing .
16 It is not so much the Western origin of new component technologies as their gestation in the West 's civilian sectors which must pose the most vexing questions for Soviet policy makers and their orthodoxies .
17 It was not so much the right hon. Gentleman 's arrogance to which I objected — we are accustomed to that .
18 The problem was not so much the offensive content of the material , since there was no one who was not familiar with it .
19 What was probably most important to such an audience was not so much the unlikely explanation of a phenomenon as its very mention , reducing fears of the unknown and of apparently inexplicable events such as changes in female physiology during pregnancy .
20 ‘ She was on edge , talking not so much the hind leg off a donkey as off an African elephant .
21 As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate .
22 At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats .
23 He was a wonderful player but it was not so much the true German sound .
24 In short , it is not so much the isolated individual , or even a large number of isolated individuals , that is the focus of interest , but individuals- in-relation-to-other-individuals .
25 Interestingly , the gravamen of the offence was not so much the likely effect on Distillers as the perceived effect on the administration of justice generally if such comment were allowed .
26 Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority .
27 The key to success in collecting information , however , is not so much the organizational ability of the clearinghouses , but the confidence of the librarians that their information and experience will be disseminated carefully , effectively , and , sometimes , with discretion .
28 What makes it so is not so much the iniquitous voting system which put in power a government that commands the support of only 42 percent of the electorate ( significantly less , taking into account abstentions and spoiled votes ) ) .
29 But the fact remains that what tends to distinguish one interpretation of the Tenth Symphony from another is not so much the moment-by-moment characterization as the pacing of dramatic structure .
30 If the proposed partition led to fighting , the Arabs who were bereft of any coherent leadership ( the Mufti and other Palestinian leaders had been exiled since 1939 ) , would depend wholly on the armies of their Arab neighbours , of which Abdallah 's was not only unquestionably the best but also stood to capture most territory .
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