Example sentences of "[not/n't] simply [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Employers look not simply for participation in social societies , but for those who attain officer status ’ read a framed commendation on their stand , typed on the headed notepaper of a firm of City solicitors .
2 Direction is not simply for times of crisis but for ongoing growth .
3 Address books are vital , not simply for friends ' addresses and phone numbers but for those of anyone who might be useful .
4 Yet they were attempts to answer real questions , and not simply for fundamentalists .
5 The true aquatic plant is not simply for decoration but functions as a partner to the fish .
6 So choose wisely and not simply on price alone .
7 Not simply on Tring Reservoirs or the home counties gravel pits do men now sit for a ten pounder anymore .
8 Responses have to be expressed in appropriate terminology and be based on historical insight not simply on emotion .
9 The wider conception of ISS is shown by the mention of parents in the section on assessment , but not simply as receivers of information about test scores .
10 They appear important in their own right and not simply as adjuncts to the Orphic theme .
11 However , this issue of the way the definition of abuse is operationalized for research is not simply of significance for debates about incidence and prevalence , it also crucially impinges on the characteristics and factors associated with abuse .
12 A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development .
13 We can indeed speak of the influence not simply of painting but of one particular painting .
14 Finally , contrast in meaning is a matter of sense , not simply of reference .
15 The question that we are looking at is a question , not simply of discipline , but a matter that depends on our understanding , not just of the eucharist , but of the nature of the church .
16 the anthropologist is committed not simply to description , but to analysing and questioning the definitions and assumptions on which social groups base their existence and predicate their activities , and to unveiling that which may be concealed or unrecognised .
17 The route to quantification , he urged , could be secured through the notion of the variable ; a format that could be applied not simply to properties which were self-evidently quantitative , such as money , but also to qualitative materials .
18 As a result those areas , notably the paramos plains and intermontane valleys , which are suitable for herding and crop-growing are experiencing environmental problems due not simply to over-exploitation , but to poor management such as the lack of rotational grazing and the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops .
19 The same point applies to Tillich 's definition of religion as Ultimate Concern which refers not simply to man 's subjective concern , that is , the expression of his Ultimate Concern , but what he is ultimately concerned about , or that which is the source of his concern .
20 ‘ Social responsibility for the librarian , then , means responsibility not simply to society as it is , but to the society of the future and the past .
21 Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic .
22 This was opposed , not simply to kings and aristocrats , but to the propertied minority .
23 That must be achieved not simply through ECOFIN , but through all 12 national Parliaments involving the Finance Ministers and Prime Ministers of the 12 countries .
24 To us , brickwork is not simply about size , colour , quantity and delivery .
25 Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters .
26 ‘ Budgeting ’ is therefore not simply about money management : it is about health care management as well .
27 Janice Stone , the national telecommunications officer for the Union of Commication Workers , says the protest is not simply about loss of jobs , though many jobs may go .
28 On that programme , our Bishop said the new catechism is not simply about sin .
29 It is pertinent to observe that education is about an emotional response to real situations — not simply about facts .
30 The growing threat of fascism after Hitler 's accession to power in Germany in 1933 was to transform perceptions of the Soviet state not simply in Nizan 's mind but in the minds of a whole generation of left-wing intellectuals .
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