Example sentences of "not so [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 2 | " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . " |
| 3 | The example nicely raises the issue of the degree to which a general linguistic theory is committed to giving an account of language understanding : for here we have a complex interaction between deictic words ( clearly a linguistic problem ) and a culture 's temporal reckoning systems ( not so clearly a linguistic problem ) , and the pre-emptive usage of deictic words ( which lies somewhere in between ) . |
| 4 | We found that the best were often child care experts who could suggest constructive alternatives , not so often the most senior people in the organisation . |
| 5 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 6 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 7 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 8 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 9 | But , as the editor Andre Fontaine explains : ‘ It is not so much a new layout as a new presentation . |
| 10 | Sir : You refer to the Prime Minister ( 4 October ) as ‘ not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine ’ , owing presumably to her supposedly vulgar tastes . |
| 11 | This rewriting of history was not so much a matter of starting again , but of making use , for a new purpose , of knowledge which was already available , whether in the work of philosophers like Hegel , economists like Ricardo , biologists like Darwin , or anthropologists . |
| 12 | It 's not so much a reconstruction of image as proof that Shocked 's confidence is growing . |
| 13 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 14 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |
| 15 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
| 16 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 17 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 18 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 19 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not so much a game show , more a study of psychology . ’ |
| 21 | It was not so much a new view as an old view applied to new problems . |
| 22 | As the legal regime for the National Curriculum comes into effect , it becomes increasingly apparent that it represents not so much a ‘ straitjacket ’ but a ‘ corset ’ — holding things in place , while restricting , but not totally , freedom of movement ! |
| 23 | That word ‘ supposed ’ may anger Jewish readers , but Yad Vashem is not so much a memorial as a political statement . |
| 24 | Turning the Map : Images from the Americas part one , Christopher Columbus reached America 500 years ago and amid the celebrations of his achievement this two-part exhibition by photographers from all over that continent reminds us that America is not just one country and Columbus ' arrival was not so much a discovery , but more the beginning of colonisation by Europeans ( until 21 Feb ) . |
| 25 | Here one suspects that there is not so much a clash of ideology as one of gross distortion . |
| 26 | The real problem here , because of the nature of the legal framework , is not so much a legal one as one of evidence . |
| 27 | When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going . |
| 28 | It is not so much a problem of hardware development outpacing software , or vice versa . |
| 29 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 30 | Scholars of Confucianism are agreed that it is not so much a religion as a guide to a system of political organisation , and as time went on , it too fell victim to divisions and disputes . |