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not so much A but B がこんなにたまりましたヽ(=´▽`=)ノ (1) Interestingly, much of the relevant research has been conducted, not so much by linguistic theoreticians, but by scholars with a more practical orientation ––– second language acquisition researchers and lexicographers. (John R. Taylor, Polysemy and the lexicon;P.62) (2) They concern, not so much the availability of different senses on the basis of general polysemy processes, but the non-occurrence of otherwise expected senses. (John R. Taylor, Polysemy and the lexicon;P.58) (3) In this case Denison assumes the change is not so much internal semantic change but a case of eternal hypercorrection as might (in all its uses) becomes more recessive […] (Traugott and Dasher, Regularity in Semantic Change; P.45) (4) Sixty years separate our fieldwork, and any comparison of our studies illustrates not so much Malinowski’s mistaken interpretations but the developments in anthropological knowledge and inquiry from his time to mine. (William A. Haviland, Cultural Anthropology; P.41) (5) It’s not so much that Blue is bored, but that he feels thwarted. (Paul Auster, Ghosts) (6) The shock was not so much that I was in pain, but that it would not be strong enough to kill me. (Paul Auster, The Locked Room) (7) […] we hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham […] (Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go) (8) The difficulty is not so much finding the data, but knowing how to handle it. (John Taylor, The Mental Corpus—How Language is Represented in the Mind) (9) His voice was deliberate, infrequent, ponderous; the voice of a man who demanded that he be listened to not so much with attention but in silence. (William Faulkner, Light in August) (10) R can be considered a semivowel. One characteristic of a vowel is that nothing in the mouth touches anything else. R definitely falls into that category. So in the exercises throughout the book it will be treated not so much as a consonant but as a vowel. (Ann Cook, American Accent Training) (11) She attracted attention not so much because of the qualities of her features but rather because of the naturalness and grace with which her expression moved.(Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, pp.15) (12) The problem was not so much what to do after that, but how to get there in the first place. (Paul Auster, Moon Palace) 中学生・高校生の英作文の答案で時折見かけるこの but を「正しくは as だ。マイナス1点」から救うための活動を続けております(笑)
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:10:05 +0000

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