Example sentences of "not simply as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of A level courses may be seen not simply as a useful tool for individual pupils who may want to go further in their education ( or have a certificate to show that they have not left school till they were l8 ) ; but as a measure of the standard of the school itself . |
| 2 | Deirdre Bair sees her project not simply as a rewriting of events , nor solely as a rereading of de Beauvoir 's writings , but as a mixture of ‘ literary biography ’ , ‘ intellectual history ’ , ‘ feminist theory ’ , and ‘ oral history ’ . |
| 3 | Not simply as a hostess — ‘ The only task I was ever trained for , ’ she said to him wryly — but also as an adviser . |
| 4 | It was selective and not general : it was determined by basic need and not simply as a way of reducing inequality . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , the active members of the African Institution saw themselves not simply as a successful pressure group but as something like an unofficial arm of government . |
| 6 | For Dewey democracy was to be understood not only in political but also in social and economic terms ; as a way of life and as a moral ideal and not simply as a form of government . |
| 7 | In particular , it appears to be forging links with philosophy , linguistics and psychology in what are increasingly referred to as ‘ cognitive sciences ’ , and establishing itself not simply as a tool but an object of study in its own right . |
| 8 | At Pilkingtons and Ford , benchmarking exercises were confined to manufacturing costs and work organization , whereas RX instigated a more profound organizational benchmarking , isolating competitive gaps in all aspects of organization not simply as a sporadic trigger exercise to prioritize change areas but as an on-going process . |
| 9 | I trust that the issue will be considered not simply as a transport or environmental matter , but as a trade and industry matter as well . |
| 10 | What we want to emphasise is the theoretical context of method and how this is integral to sociological investigation , not simply as a technique but as something which has profound significance for the possibility of sociology itself . |
| 11 | But small schools are often those in which the head has to spend — and not simply as a matter of choice — a good deal of time teaching . |
| 12 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |