Sentence examples for been not so from inspiring English sources

Hitherto it has been not so much about him being chinny as leaving that jaw exposed.

"I've been not so much surprised but very happy with how strong everything feels right now," Harvey said.

Still, Lake Carrington's difficulties may have been not so much aesthetic or conceptual as they were financial.

His problem this year has been not so much the quality of his golf as its consistency.

I'm glad that my decision to feed my visual cortex seems to have been not so stupid in the end.

Capello joked that he would then have to neglect players from Liverpool, whose form has been "not so high".

For the last two years, buyout specialists and venture capitalists have been not-so-quietly lobbying Congress on the issue, hoping to forestall what now looks increasingly inevitable.

For months, N.B.A. general managers have been not-so-subtly plotting to steal LeBron James, a potential free agent in 2010, from the Cavaliers.

But, perhaps curiously, some of the industry's best-known lawyers, many of whom once worked at the agency, have been not-so-secretly lobbying Congress for the S.E.C. to get more money.

The fact that years before they had been not-so-covertly financed by the CIA was seen as a forever unforgivable sin.

While some are saying that, because EA hasn't announced sales numbers yet, the likelihood is that sales have been not-so-good.