Example sentences of "[adv] so [adv] a question [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 2 | When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going . |
| 3 | However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ . |
| 4 | This has been not so much a question of exegesis but of hermeneutics , searching for the underlying meaning and background to the understanding and belief in the demonic world ( see Carr 1981 ) . |
| 5 | It 's not so much a question of pushing the music as finding the way to let it pull the listener through . |
| 6 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 7 | It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful . |