And there was a lack of oversight from the regulator, the Financial Services Authority: it was "thoroughly inadequate... not so much the dog that did not bark, as a dog barking up the wrong tree".
Mr. Brown's exemplary actors can thus scale their performances down to the point where you feel as though you're not hearing Mr. Sondheim's songs so much as overhearing them.
Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.
And Weldon gets more credit for those new drugs than the average company chief, because much of that productivity came not so much from research as from mergers and acquisitions.
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It is not so much that construction is now shrinking, so much as that construction remains in a shrunken state.
The tax was put into place not so much as a revenue raiser but as a proper sin tax.
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So, we kinda think about it not so much as, again, for the DS. When we originally launched the PlayStation, there was a lot of heavy lifting that had to go into establishing that marketplace, so it was coming from zero, and needed to establish that credibility.
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An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business.
Last night, however, I spotted a mis-tagging that was not so much juvenile as downright offensive.
Trickier etiquette problems arise when the issue is not so much noise as context.
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But Mr Gilmer argues that the cities are not so much rivals as partners.
In many cases the problem does not seem to be miserliness so much as ignorance.
But what is threatened by uncontrolled vehicle usage is not prosperity so much as lifestyle.
It turned out that the city had been not so much ungovernable as ungoverned.
But when it comes to homosexuality, many Italians become not so much intolerant as uneasy.
The main way they measure everyone, he said, is not so much time on the page as interaction.
The event at Kingsmill was not so much a retreat as an intervention.
The man behind the pledge says he's not so much embattled as bored.
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The problem with most off-the-rack boots is not so much fit as quality.
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Mr Tandjung argues that Indonesian voters are not so much ill-informed as pragmatic.
Moldova looks stuck in a wretched economic and geographical plight, a country not so much forgotten as never remembered.
The rise in the oil price, in other words, may leave nerves not so much frayed as in tatters.
And it is a description not so much of Theresienstadt as of H.
But for the great mass of poetry enthusiasts, new poetry is usually received not so much with hostility as with indifference.
Brown's 117 rooms have been not so much reimagined as simply updated.
To many Dutch observers, the country's famed tradition of tolerance is a reflection not so much of high ideals as of pragmatism.
Dietrich Fey did not so much earn his reputation as inherit it.
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The image seems to have turned yet again, and now the Mormons of the popular imagination are not so much honest as innocent.
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