Sentence examples for so much rise from inspiring English sources

"The tale does not so much rise and fall as flat-line," he wrote.

At Fuente De the mountains do not so much rise as scream out of the ground.

Watkins is back in the starting lineup, though he did not so much rise to the role as watch it fall to him.

"House of Flying Daggers," however, following eagerly on this summer's "Hero," suggests an artist who has not so much risen above the scrutiny of social oppression as drifted away from it.

Not so much the rise in temperature as the reason for it.

What's historic in Egypt today is not so much the rise of any one party as the apparent slow emergence of democracy in the heart of the Arab world.

But Stovall's comments show that it isn't so much a rise in crime that allows these sorts of police actions to happen, it's the fear of crime.

This is partly because the allowance has risen so much and will rise further to £11,520 for the 2013/14 financial year.

The record seemed to brand Björk not so much a rising star, but a distant planet with complex weather patterns.

Whichever theory proves true, geologists are still at a loss to explain why so much gold rose up from the mantle at that time in a single location.

And why is it that in a culture like the US women have had so much trouble rising in the ranks, while in countries where machismo is the norm, men have been so open minded by comparison?