Example sentences of "not [adv] much [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 2 | Most recent models of 6mm collet routers now produce around twice the power of this model ; this is not so much to speed the work , but more to improve the quality and variety of profiles made by cutters . |
| 3 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 4 | In legal matters there is usually a certain room for difference of opinion , and even though there be positive authority against your view , the examiner is anxious not so much to test the details of your knowledge as to assess your ability to argue in a lawyer-like way . |
| 5 | All the Cairo world loved a good funeral and the bystanders stopped what they were doing , not so much to let the procession pass but to join in the fun . |
| 6 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 7 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 8 | Our objective was different : not so much to plot the difficulties of later life , as to discover how people find a path through them . |
| 9 | Borrowing an idea from the fiercely competitive US market , ITN has made McDonald the sole anchorman but his role seems not so much to read the news as to make it simple for the viewer before the reporter fills the story out . |
| 10 | The purpose was not so much to reproduce the direction of artists as to circumvent the unnatural effect of ‘ music coming out of a hole ’ . |
| 11 | Edward I , considering himself sovereign lord of both countries , appointed his own Warden not so much to keep the peace along a border whose very existence he denied , but for the whole Keeping of Scotland . |