Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been much ’ , he continued , ‘ which has implicitly or otherwise criticized — it is not so strong a word — criticized the foreign policy of my country . ’ |
| 2 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 3 | The old Suk version ( Supraphon , dating from 1968 ) is not so serious an alternative as the Fontenay , who play it admirably but at times somewhat hectically . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 5 | I 'm not so sure a lot of people sleeping rough on the streets |
| 6 | the Antichrist is not so much a person as a principle . |
| 7 | It 's not so much a question it 's a comment . |
| 8 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 9 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 10 | And , and in a sense , not to be explicit , would , would have been not so much a crime , but would have been an error I think . |
| 11 | We 'll go a little , trifle slower but rather than no it 's not so much a trifle slower as steadily . |
| 12 | So it 's not so much a device to study in its own right , it 's a teaching aid in other words , a classroom aid . |
| 13 | Well it 's , it 's not so much a suggestion it 's more that you ca n't do multiplicational area until |
| 14 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 15 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 16 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 17 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 18 | Possibly not so much the cost , what other factors in the list of , of determinants could come into play now ? |
| 19 | I think one of the main points is not so much the way it 's taught but who teaches it . |
| 20 | Where the female chooses not so much the male as what the male 's got is erm female choice as I said when Darwin suggested was widely ridiculed , partly because i it , it contradicted Victorian prejudices . |
| 21 | But that 's not so much the building as th |
| 22 | Cos the important thing is is not so much the number of hours as the , the , the affecting on , the effect on the cost . |
| 23 | Well the idea is , is it 's not so much the lead |
| 24 | George Stephen was not so poor an historian as to refuse credit to other parliamentarians such as Lushington , Brougham and Denman who could not be accounted Claphamites , nor to nonconformity in the country , nor to Emmanuel Cooper the Quaker for his work in the Agency nor Cropper and Sturge for their financial support of the Agency . |
| 25 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not so easy a conquest ! ’ she stormed . |
| 27 | It was certainly not so simple an issue as supposed by the old ideologues on either side — the neo-mercantilists in favour of protection and the neo-classical liberals in favour of open , free trade . |
| 28 | It was not so long a walk , though it led her back in twenty minutes through a year and a half of her life , and was quick with memories both sharp and sweet . |
| 29 | They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole . |
| 30 | For a start , there is a clear answer to the question of where thoughts and feelings take place , if not so fine an answer as we might like . |