Sentence examples for so much asking from inspiring English sources

His tone suggested that he was not so much asking as telling.

True enough, but Laurent, if I haven't misunderstood you, you are not so much asking about revolution — dramatic, wide-reaching change — as you are reaching back to Revolution — political revolt that ushers in a new social order).

"We've got a government that will not be so much asking for a second term as a second chance, and what everyone will have to think about is: can they afford to give him a second chance?" Mr. Hague said.

Evelyn Waugh cut commas to convey the clipped dispatch of upper-class speech: "You see I wasn't so much asking you to agree to anything as explaining what our side propose to do".

SM: I wasn't so much asking why you haven't designed your own hardware — I fully understand people playing to their own strengths.

That's a daunting prospect, but it's not so much asking you to use this as a base from which to manage communications, so much as a place to store, retrieve and make sense of your interactions.

'Can Mozart bear so much?' asked Forster.

"Why does the government hate Poland so much?" asked another.

A friend who gave so much, asked for so little.

"Why do people dislike Mary Pierce so much?" asks Petina Gappah.

Why are students loans so much?" asked Hawkins rhetorically.