Example sentences of "not so [adj] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 2 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 3 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I 'm not so anxious to go up there . |
| 5 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |
| 6 | The second is not so easy to explain away , for it implied a fundamental incomprehension of the financial industry , many of whose 200,000 employees are Labour voters in marginal Edinburgh seats . |
| 7 | But the memory of September 12 , 1986 is not so easy to rub out . |
| 8 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 9 | While gonadal material can easily be obtained from mice , testicular samples for the study of human meiosis are not so easy to come by . |
| 10 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 11 | It is also , very importantly , of two kinds : short term and long term ; so that what is recalled in the short term ( the classic example is a string of numbers ) may fade rapidly from the memory , while other elements of the communication , which are not so easy to recall immediately , stay in the mind long afterwards . |
| 12 | Everyone is happy to jump-to and work hard on a new factory opening or a big product launch , but they are not so eager to rush off and fulfil the everyday requests which come in from the media . |
| 13 | More storage space is needed for loose hay than for bales , but loose hay is not so likely to heat dangerously . |
| 14 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |