Sentence examples for much a lack from inspiring English sources

"The issue is not so much a lack of leadership or lack of courage.

After all, it is not so much a lack of confidence that this Arsenal team suffer from as misplaced arrogance.

"When people die of hunger-related causes, the problem is often not so much a lack of calories as a lack of micronutrients like iron and zinc.

It was not so much a lack of quality – despite the latest disappearance of Aran Concerto – as the grim conditions, and the consequent reticence in the jockeys.

With Manchester City at Southampton the problem appeared to be not so much a lack of effort as a lack of belief in what they were doing.

"While all options should be considered, the problem in Iraq has not been so much a lack of direct US military involvement, but a lack of reconciliation on the part of Iraqi leaders," Levin said.

That the format hadn't changed much points not so much to a lack of courage as the conservatism of the chat-show medium – one to which Ross, a man of no little intelligence or talent, remains bewilderingly wedded.

"Reno is much easier to sell than Detroit because you don't have a negative to overcome as much as a lack of information," he said.

In the heavyweight fight, it wasn't defense as much as a lack of offense.

I like to think of it not so much as a lack of carefulness as a wish to move forward.

It is already plain that the intelligence agencies do not suffer so much from a lack of data as a surfeit of it.