Example sentences of "so [adj] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years . |
| 2 | The considerations here are not so much juridical as ethical . |
| 3 | It seemed to me he was not so much indifferent as hostile towards these poor men . |
| 4 | It was not so much small as rectangular , with a low ceiling , two narrow windows and a slab of aquamarine industrial carpet , firm to the touch . |
| 5 | The distance between them , he wrote , is not so much great as unbridgeable . |
| 6 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 7 | Not so much butch as brave . |
| 8 | For the young Diana Spencer , this long noble heritage was not so much impressive as terrifying . |
| 9 | For neural nets and genetic algorithms , it is not so much fallible as crude . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 11 | This section is not so much demonstrative as assertive , but this present study is informed by a remark of Gramsci 's ( 1971 : 465 ) : |
| 12 | His Debussy Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune was the strangest I have ever heard : drably overcast , not so much seductive as comatose , and so deathly slow that audible flute breaths were essential in the pauses . |
| 13 | Her benefits were therefore not so much economic as political : he who pays the piper calls the tune . |
| 14 | Consider this passage about a sow : ‘ her combination of gross whiskery nakedness and riotous carnality is seized by the mythic imagination as a sort of uterus on the loose — upholstered with breasts , not so much many-breasted as a mobile tub entirely made of female sexual parts , a woman-sized , multiple udder of trotters . |
| 15 | In a novel where expectations are not so much unfulfilled as positively spited , Shatov 's future , his hope , suffers simple tragic extinction with his murder . |
| 16 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 17 | OK , they 're old fashioned games revamped , but I 'm an old fashioned type of guy , and anyway , they 're not so much old-fashioned as classics of their types . |
| 18 | In my experience most A&R guys are not so much unhelpful as just plain uninterested ; the ones showing interest perform the most agile of U-turns as quickly as a week later . |
| 19 | The ice not so much broken as dynamited and blown out of the water , they were both giggling like kids out of school . |
| 20 | The England he represents is not so much irrelevant as antithetical to any modern image of Britain . |
| 21 | The England he represents is not so much irrelevant as antithetical to any modern image of Britain . |
| 22 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 23 | But you remember how intense your feelings were for someone who was your whole life , and you 're afraid that your love for him is n't so much dead as lying doggo , ready to rise up and damage everything you hold dear . |
| 24 | Her face was not so much beautiful as interesting , she told herself , her hair thick and full , her eyes alive and sparkling . |
| 25 | It was not so much pro-Manchester as anti-London . |
| 26 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 27 | Main symptom is pain without so much bruising as would make one give Arnica . |
| 28 | I had chosen the right moment , because I found him , not so much irresolute as musing on the possibility of being wiped out by ‘ a stray bomb ’ . |
| 29 | " I was n't so much bold as feeling I could accomplish things . |
| 30 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |