Example sentences of "not so much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 2 | not so much promise or instruction |
| 3 | We could sing nicer , too ; we do n't have to push our voices and rip them up , but it 's just not so much fun . |
| 4 | Not so much fun as those early days perhaps , but still a lot of excitement , and surely now we can call ourselves ‘ horologists ’ . |
| 5 | There 's not so much space . |
| 6 | I like it better with not so much ginger I think . |
| 7 | There is not so much variation at the front end of the flowering season as there is in autumn and winter , when some varieties and types show a marked reluctance to end their activities . |
| 8 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 9 | This positivist and functionalist adaptation of the Mannheimian legacy did not so much stand Mannheim 's programme on its head as turn it inside out . |
| 10 | For the young person who finds reading difficult , Well done , Secret Seven is not so much escape as very hard work . |
| 11 | However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year . |
| 12 | The facilities available for television training differs from school to school ; filming and television work is expensive to organise , and really there is not so much opportunity as one would like to see for students to gain experience in these vital areas . |
| 13 | The students find that the basic sciences ‘ make sense ’ when they come to revise them in the light of some clinical experience — as one student stated recently : ‘ It 's not so much revision as vision . ’ |
| 14 | The problem is that the Labour party dodges all the important European issues because its conversion to the EC is not so much skin deep as ruled purely by expediency . |
| 15 | Campese is not so much dragon as dinosaur in a world of rugby that has been usurped by believers in forward power , physical prowess and the art of containment . |
| 16 | Close up , he looked softer and less fit than I had thought , not so much rugby as darts . |
| 17 | Not so much conservative , I thought , as repressed . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Its innovativeness did not so much lie in the originality of the separate ingredients but in the recipe itself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not so much dancing , you know , but a lot of waggling about and a queer kind of singing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Because of this , what we see on the screen seems not so much acting as existing . |
| 27 | The rest is not so much history as anti-racist herstory . |
| 28 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 29 | You are not so much painting objects as indicating how the wind affects them , through brush action . |
| 30 | Or rather , they do not so much dance as cling to one another , rocking drunkenly with the tide . |