Example sentences of "is [not/n't] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the young person who finds reading difficult , Well done , Secret Seven is not so much escape as very hard work . |
| 2 | There is not so much glamour attached to say shirt no 17 as No 9 . |
| 3 | Campese is not so much dragon as dinosaur in a world of rugby that has been usurped by believers in forward power , physical prowess and the art of containment . |
| 4 | Today it is not so much fluoridation as nitrates and pesticides which generate international conflict over water quality . |
| 5 | There is not so much variation at the front end of the flowering season as there is in autumn and winter , when some varieties and types show a marked reluctance to end their activities . |
| 6 | What principally affects the environment of management is not so much turbulence as the wave upon wave of not very closely related demands and pressures from public and governmental sources . |
| 7 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 8 | As one leading business magazine put it. : ‘ Body Shop 's star in the City is not so much rising as super-glued to the roof of the firmament . ’ |
| 9 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 10 | The rest is not so much history as anti-racist herstory . |
| 11 | Since the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 and the introduction of compulsory first land registration throughout the country , there is not so much emphasis placed upon smart engrossments . |
| 12 | But fluoride 's toughening is not so much help to the uneven biting surfaces ; they are at risk even when people practice good oral hygiene and regularly have their teeth professionally cleaned . |
| 13 | It is not so much lack of intelligence , though compared with other Labour post-war leaders , Attlee , Gaitskell , Wilson , Callaghan and Foot , Mr Kinnock certainly does not shine . |
| 14 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 15 | Falck shares a plainness and Englishness with Cope , but his stock in trade is not so much memorability of phrase as an absolute fidelity to primary feeling . |
| 16 | There is not so much advocacy to be done ; much of the work is non-litigious ( such as drafting documents and advising on title ) , and the cases that do get into court tend to turn upon technicalities of company law , taxation , property and wills , or upon questions of company finance , rather than upon controversial questions of fact . |
| 17 | For the most part , a node is a staging post area , collecting energy during daylight , and passing it on to other parts of the plant during darkness , when the elaboration stops , and there is not so much traffic on the stem main road . |
| 18 | It is not so much thinking and reason that spring to mind as involvement , a sense of intimacy and harmony with the materials at hand , developed through long experience and commitment . |
| 19 | That cost , according to Brian Foster of Securitag , a company which installs security systems , varies from £2,000 to £60,000 depending on the size of the store , but Foster admits it is not so much ofa cure for theft as a way of changing its focus . |
| 20 | The poet writes in the first person singular as a man talking to a loved one about the inevitable advent of his death , and yet the matter discussed here is not so much death as the gradual disappearance of life . |
| 21 | John Retallack is a bright director but keeps only a very light hand on the tiller here ; this is not so much director 's theatre as anonymous the- atre . |
| 22 | The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender . |
| 23 | In the sciences , a student 's progress is fairly strictly monitored by exams ; there is not so much control in other subjects . |
| 24 | Her condition is irreversible and she writes , ‘ this is not so much news as an appeal to Somervillians who might bring the existence of these neuropathies to the attention of the public , some of whom are probably in the early stages . ’ |
| 25 | The dichotomy between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear . |
| 26 | If the investor is a purchaser , the risk to capital is therefore limited and known ( the case of the writers of options is not so clear cut and will be examined later ) . |
| 27 | The child who likes expressing his ideas in words , but who is not so happy drawing and painting , can be asked to write about an interest . |
| 28 | I think they 've got to become less competitive , less arrogant and less dominant , seeing that as the macho role , and I think they 've got to become erm much more erm feminine and approve the feminine characteristics , so that there is n't so much difference between the two genders , and particularly in marriage and in the home . |