Example sentences of "not so [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 2 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 3 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 4 | But it 's not so much nowadays though . |
| 5 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 6 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 7 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 8 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 9 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 10 | In contrast , the proposals for indicative drug budgets are not so much wrongly conceived as incomplete . |
| 11 | Altrincham was writing not so much out of malice as out of a wish to save the monarchy if not from itself , then from the court . |
| 12 | Craig : Cheryl 's not so much always behind as all behind . |
| 13 | Not so much now I do n't think . |
| 14 | Its not so bad now either way , it was years ago always look down on people like that but not so much now |
| 15 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 16 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 17 | Not so much now . |
| 18 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 19 | It 's not so much now , it 's so much that , |
| 20 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 21 | Well she 's not so much now , but she Julia would eat all day if we let her |
| 22 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 23 | Other times , perhaps things had come down , but not so much then . |
| 24 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 25 | Not so much there , little bit better there , but that bit so , okay , it 's er , you 've set yourself a task to do a sort of a lighting exercise to photograph this camera er so , yo you you know , you must really control the lights and the do the best you can . |
| 26 | Watching on TV and taking part are not so much mutually exclusive as part of a balanced human cycle of passive and active involvement . |
| 27 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 28 | Not er not so many now but it 's er we 've still got members but I mean we well we 're you know all about that you 're the front |
| 29 | mm , you seemed to of , I mean you were a bit disappointed there were less , not so many visually impaired people were there , but they , they were sort of casting the net with council |