Sentence examples for developed not so much from inspiring English sources

Their impatience presumably developed not so much from the delay in their steaks being served as from the approach of Sunday's American Football League championship game.

Futures research in France was developed not so much in view of sustainability as with a distinct intention of shaping the future [16].

The idea, as it developed, was not so much to groom future photographers — though some showed true talent — but also to help these children envision a path out of poverty.

As has often happened with synthetic substitutes, however, a number of different varieties were developed; some were actually better than natural rubber in some ways and others better in other ways, and so it was soon realized that what was being developed was not so much a replacement as a supplement.

Compared to other developed countries, not so much.

The NASA portion of the budget bill that Congress is trying to approve this week shows a lot of love for the Orion spacecraft that NASA just launched last week and for the Space Launch System rocket being developed, yet not so much for the space station or commercial crew programs.

The actual meaning of many paragraphs will develop over time, not so much as a result of the most sophisticated interpretations but as outcome of ongoing power struggles.

This has important implications for our view on how toxic Microcystis blooms develop, which may not so much be the result of zooplankton grazing in general but rather may reflect the outcome of interactions between defences and counter-defences in auto- and heterotrophs, comediated by the costs imposed by both the development of these defences and counter-defences.

In developed countries things are not so much better organised.

By Adam Gopnik The American Presidency has developed an unfortunate resemblance not so much to an imperial throne, as some insist, as to the medieval papacy, with an obsessive pomposity of office producing all those hangar-size libraries and bricklike memoirs.

But such opportunities are comparatively rare because, she says, in Portugal "the market is not that developed and there is not so much funding".