Example sentences of "not so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Close up , he looked softer and less fit than I had thought , not so much rugby as darts . |
| 32 | Not so much conservative , I thought , as repressed . |
| 33 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 34 | What principally affects the environment of management is not so much turbulence as the wave upon wave of not very closely related demands and pressures from public and governmental sources . |
| 35 | Its innovativeness did not so much lie in the originality of the separate ingredients but in the recipe itself . |
| 36 | The merit of the book , however , does not so much lie in its attempt to break the " iron curtain " that traditionally separates linguistic and literary approaches to literature , but rather in its contribution to the development of a stylistics that successfully reconciles linguistic analysis with a consideration of the socio-cultural and ideological dimensions of the production and reception of literary texts . |
| 37 | But fluoride 's toughening is not so much help to the uneven biting surfaces ; they are at risk even when people practice good oral hygiene and regularly have their teeth professionally cleaned . |
| 38 | Not so much dancing , you know , but a lot of waggling about and a queer kind of singing . |
| 39 | Since the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 and the introduction of compulsory first land registration throughout the country , there is not so much emphasis placed upon smart engrossments . |
| 40 | I may say that it was not my intention to allow Harold Wilson to become involved in a full-scale lawsuit in circumstances where not so much odium but ridicule would be poured on him . |
| 41 | Because of this , what we see on the screen seems not so much acting as existing . |
| 42 | The rest is not so much history as anti-racist herstory . |
| 43 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 44 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 45 | Or rather , they do not so much dance as cling to one another , rocking drunkenly with the tide . |
| 46 | Not so much sailing ; more like flying on the wind with maybe with a prayer . |
| 47 | What stopped people surfing Pipeline was only in part the wave itself — not so much perpendicular as concave , bent over like the hook of a question mark or a twitching scorpion 's tail . |
| 48 | These are not so much part of the ‘ inner voice ’ : in Cohen 's ( 1982 ) terms , they are perhaps more readily interpreted as the ‘ voice to the outside world ’ . |
| 49 | Enough work so that I could enjoy it but not so much work that I would be fed up . |
| 50 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 51 | But that ‘ type ’ was not so much anti-lesbian and gay as pro-family . |
| 52 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 53 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 54 | When nookey is in the offing bosoms do not so much swell as burst over the lace like a pair of dumplings rising to the surface of a casserole pot . |
| 55 | It 's not so much lobbying as blackmail . |
| 56 | He has not so much brain as ear wax , ( Troilus and Cressida ) — to anyone slow on the uptake . |
| 57 | Today it is not so much fluoridation as nitrates and pesticides which generate international conflict over water quality . |
| 58 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 59 | She smiled up at me , ‘ Not so much blackcurrant this time , eh ? |
| 60 | It is not so much lack of intelligence , though compared with other Labour post-war leaders , Attlee , Gaitskell , Wilson , Callaghan and Foot , Mr Kinnock certainly does not shine . |