Example sentences of "[noun pl] and not merely " in BNC.

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1 These groups are rearing units and not merely mating consociations .
2 FRED 4 seeks to ensure that financial statements report the substance of transactions and not merely their legal form .
3 That section was repealed and replaced by section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , which applied to all life prisoners and not merely those convicted of murder .
4 Those who know anything about the way in which universities and polytechnics work know that they are businesses and not merely halls of residence .
5 The roots of disillusionment — in so far as they were the fruit of twelfth-century conditions and not merely the natural response to too high or too vaguely expressed expectations — lay in the intellectuals ' belief , stated by John of Salisbury .
6 This intellectual process is of greatest linguistic and epistemological importance , because thanks to it human beings can devise and use common nouns , which are class names and not merely proper names for each individual of a species of beings or class of things .
7 Where shares are entitled to participate in surplus capital on a winding up , prima facie they participate in all surplus assets and not merely in that part which does not represent undistributed profits that might have been distributed as dividend to another class .
8 If a personal representative or trustee in bankruptcy elects to be registered , and is , he becomes personally liable for any amounts unpaid on the shares and not merely representationally liable to the extent of the estate .
9 The development of substantive principles supplements and not merely implements legislative intent , by furnishing more specific criteria for ‘ good administration . ’
10 However , a properly conducted appeal ( on the facts and not merely on a point of law ) would be capable of curing any defects in the original hearing .
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