Example sentences of "not simply [conj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case drew international attention not simply because of the issue of Harris 's mental health , but also because of California 's large number of prisoners on death row ( 328 after the death of Harris , out of 2,588 in the USA as a whole ) , and its tradition of liberalism . |
| 2 | Liverpool seems unique , not simply because of the scale of its problems but also because of the consistent pattern of political conflict that has characterized so much of what has happened in the city and in its relations with central government . |
| 3 | Hollywood was scared , not simply because of the threat to personal life and limb , but by the implications being meted out in the press which followed two distinct inferences : first that Polanski through his and his dead friends ' involvement with drugs had brought this tragedy upon his own house , and , second , that the ‘ new ’ Hollywood in general must accept some guilt through its current fascination with violence , drugs , sex and the lifestyle of what appeared — in the eyes of the establishment — to be a mortally sick section of society . |
| 4 | It is tacit not simply because of the absence of a binding ( legally enforceable ) agreement , but because of the absence of any explicit agreement whatsoever . |
| 5 | We say this , not simply because of the weight of evidence we have just set down , but because of two additional factors of significance . |