Example sentences of "not so [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not so well behaved as they were formerly . |
| 2 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 3 | The priorities are assessed on the basis of evidence and unfortunately evidence about people is not so readily quantified as evidence about financial and physical resources . |
| 4 | The senator had just told me how difficult it was to extract any sense from his son , yet apparently Rickie was not so far gone as the senator had suggested . |
| 5 | As a spin-off of the Channel 4 series of the same name , this book is not so much written as compiled . |
| 6 | She was not so much spoilt as totally unaware . |
| 7 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 8 | He does not so much sit as squat upon the rug , kneeled over the low table as though in prayer . |
| 9 | Probably they had not so much disappeared as retreated , with the local dialect , into the private and unofficial underworld of non-literate culture . |
| 10 | This is appropriate , for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly . |
| 11 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 12 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 13 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 14 | From all these activities women were not so much excluded as absent by definition . |
| 15 | She was free of Ferdinando , towards whom her feelings had not so much changed as vanished , and of Mrs Browning who still troubled her so . |
| 16 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 17 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 18 | Q2 's designer , Mike Pocock , was n't so much chosen as self-appointed through a combination of admiration for Mary 's enthusiasm and a clear understanding of what the owner wanter Q2 to be . |
| 19 | They were eight-sided crystals set at regular intervals in the walls and ceiling , and they shed a rather unpleasant glow that did n't so much illuminate as outline the darkness . |