Example sentences of "not so [adj] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nunzia peeled herself an orange , paring the skin close to the flesh so the padded white endodermis was stripped from the juicy red-flecked flesh , and yet not so close that the fruit spurted juice . |
| 2 | Admittedly , in recent years , top coaches such as ‘ Chalkie ’ White at Leicester and Alan Davies at Nottingham has provided a focus and created a centre of excellence which has attracted players but I am not so sure that the same parameters still apply . |
| 3 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |
| 4 | Consequently , the CEGB needs to convince the inspector not only that the most likely outcome is a negative net-effective cost , but also that the sensitivity of this result to plausible changes in the CEGB 's forecasts is not so great that a positive ( undesirable ) NEC becomes a likely result . |
| 5 | It is , obviously , deeper than the light trance , but not so deep that the patient will not be aware of what is going on around him . |
| 6 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 7 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 8 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 9 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 10 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 11 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 12 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 13 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 14 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 15 | Psalm 104:30 : ‘ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created , and thou renewest the face of the ground ’ refers to the animal creation , and may mean not so much that the Spirit created them , but , as in Genesis 2:7 , that God breathes his life into the already moulded form of animals and man . |
| 16 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 17 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 19 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 20 | In considering the exercise of their powers the local authority must take into account matters which they ought to take into account , ignore matters which they ought not to take into account and then reach a decision which is not so unreasonable that no reasonable local authority could have come to it . |
| 21 | First , the ‘ hard look ’ test is contrasted with the ‘ kid glove ’ standard of review within the United Kingdom under the Wednesbury test which is said to demand no more than that a decision be not so unreasonable that no reasonable body could make it . |
| 22 | Straps on harnesses should be long enough to give good adjustment , but not so long that the ends dangle ! |
| 23 | It is perhaps not so surprising that the penis becomes so wilfully difficult in later life when you consider the punishment that is doles out to it in adolescence . |
| 24 | But perhaps the obvious disparity between individual talents and dispositions which clearly fit some for action more than others , the obvious tension involved between the pressures of active involvement in affairs and the inner detachment necessary for thought and contemplation , and the history of the development of Western institutional Christianity with its strong tradition of groups separated from the world in convents and monasteries , or priests distinguished from the laity by their religious calling , make it after all not so surprising that the discussions of active and contemplative life tended to stress their separation from each other rather than draw attention to a more fruitful affinity . |
| 25 | Warranties ‘ are other obligations which , though they must be performed , are not so vital that a failure to perform them goes to the substance of the contract . ’ |
| 26 | It is not so obvious that the second , negative claim of conventionalism also serves the ideal of protected expectations . |
| 27 | Therefore , s.5(4) applies to voidable contracts ; that is , where the mistake is not so fundamental that the contract is void . |
| 28 | Amis hopes that it 's cloudy , but not so cloudy that the owner should come back and start breathing over his shoulder again . |