Example sentences of "not so [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Floy looked with interest at the fields and pastures and thought that , although they were much larger than the ones on Renascia and the crops and vegetables were not quite the same , there was not so very much difference , really . |
| 2 | The alternative and , in the last resort , not so very different view is that which sees the Hundred Years War as a wider civil war in which a policy of royal centralisation , based on Paris , was opposed not only by the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy ( in both cases king of England ) , but by those of Brittany , and ( late in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ) , Burgundy . |
| 3 | It is not so much that curriculum is the ‘ what ’ of education and teaching the ‘ how ’ , as that the teacher 's classroom strategies are what transform curriculum from a mere bundle of inert ideas to experiences through which children learn . |
| 4 | Hence , as in so many other traditional cultures , the victims of affliction are thus revealed as criminals ; in contrast to the situation in Samuel Butler 's allegorical novel Erewhon , it is not so much that sickness in itself is a crime as that it is a symptom and consequence of criminal activity . |
| 5 | The objection to Moore is not so much that beauty , without consciousness of it , would not be good as that beauty , without consciousness of it , would be impossible . |
| 6 | Their main target will be not so much that gap at the lineout , or even the debatable inside arm requirement , assuming either is a target at all , but the turnover law . |
| 7 | What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be . |
| 8 | Moravia is not so much another nationality in the blend but , rather , a district . |
| 9 | But in practice this is not so much another nail in the coffin of the advanced passenger train , more shovelling the earth on top . |
| 10 | What matters here is not so much this association between qualification and quality , but how it is explained . |