Example sentences of "[noun sg] do not merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Predatory crime does not merely victimize individuals , it impedes and , in the extreme case , even prevents the formation and maintenance of community . |
| 2 | The rice and other crops produced by the peasantry did not merely keep the population as a whole alive ; rice was also the cornerstone of the formal political and economic organization of the country , at both national and local levels . |
| 3 | These ‘ values ’ about child abuse do not merely exist as debatable academic ideas ; some of them have become ‘ institutionalised ’ into the official procedures of child abuse work . |
| 4 | Dimension does not merely mean the space to be filled . |
| 5 | Althusser argues that Marx 's intervention did not merely amount to the historicization of the formal categories of the classical economists . |
| 6 | Crime and Punishment did not merely reflect or even confirm that strange and removed elsewhere , the world journalists write about . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the demonstrative does not merely give crude emphasis to a referent ; it suggests that although the element is " known " some extra processing effort must take place in order for it to be accessed . |
| 8 | The parents charter does not merely inform people of the rights that they already have and which are approved by Parliament , but contains a list of proposals on the privatisation of the inspectorate . |
| 9 | Expressed in these terms the contract theory does not merely ( irrelevantly ) emphasise the company 's non-state origins , it also offers a political justification for the possession of private power . |
| 10 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 11 | The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest . |
| 12 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 13 | As noted , structuring does not merely involve routine tasks but also often requires complex financial engineering , in which houses based in London have developed considerable expertise over the years . |