Example sentences of "not [adv] [det] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many consumed by a powerful love , he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative . |
| 2 | Not so much for the platform speakers , who have arrived , but for some of the floor speakers , who have n't and would like to . |
| 3 | It was this western part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was so keen to get his hands on ; not so much for the Pilsener lagers , but for the Skoda machine plants and the iron and coal resources of Western Bohemia . |
| 4 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 5 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |
| 6 | He adores feeding , not so much for the food , but for the sucking experience . |