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will go for E too :lol:
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Why cant we use tthe Not/but construction here? Is that wrong?
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by considering not/but u r leaving out so which also can be included for best construct, it includes an idiom as well as parellilism ..

.." not so much by ....as by " -- is the best suitable here


i will go with E
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i'm with MA. It's B for me.
...not by but by

OA ps.



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