Example sentences of "[noun] be not merely a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is accepted that such activities are not merely a matter of skill , but questions are asked about how far the ‘ knowledge ’ in such fields is capable of being explicated and taught in an explicit rather than tacit , intuitive or mimetic manner , or how far one can develop standard or consensual criteria for judging performance . |
| 2 | And then there is the risk of failure , which inflates the damages on the basis that the defendant is not merely a defamer , but a defamer who has persisted in the injury to the last . |
| 3 | The frog 's leap is not merely a way of getting from one point on the ground to another . |
| 4 | Law is not merely a matter of the rules which govern relations between private individuals … |
| 5 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 6 | This work was not merely a move towards understanding molecular bonding but also the material for an entire branch of chemistry . |
| 7 | The appropriate analogy for the structural weakness of sociology in this respect is the social reality sociologists study : sexism is not merely a question of institutional discrimination against women , but the schema of underlying values is also implicated . |
| 8 | For Simmel , contradiction is not merely an instrument for , but an intrinsic condition of , the dynamic force of history . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend and the House will be aware that our contribution and support for the secretary-general is not merely a matter of words . |
| 10 | Bukharin recognised that NEP was not merely a compromise of ‘ principles ’ but also an acceptance of the balance of class forces in the Soviet economy and society generally . |
| 11 | In the political and military conflicts which have arisen as a result of these inequalities , education is not merely a casualty of war but is part of the battlefield . |
| 12 | An education which does justice to feminist priorities is not merely a matter of curriculum innovation and change although when women begin to rewrite the history and culture of societies in ways which include the diversity of women 's experiences , and when women generate their own knowledge and become their own teachers — the consequences can be challenging to men 's view of the world and their view of women . |
| 13 | The priest in Israel was not merely a temple functionary , a master and manipulator of sacred ritual by which the people 's offerings and worship were duly performed . |
| 14 | He established the concept of the King 's Peace , whereby the king was not merely a war leader but a representative of God on earth , with the duty of ensuring safe conduct and good behaviour throughout his realm . |
| 15 | This latest exhibition is not merely an update of the one many will remember visiting at the Royal Academy in 1979 , but a transformation . |
| 16 | ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients . |
| 17 | This shows that the punch is not merely an arm movement , but a powerful , co-ordinated body action . |
| 18 | This holiness is not merely a devotion to the deity ( there was plenty of such attachment in the ancient world that was far from holy — for instance the cult prostitution that was so common in the temples ) , nor a mere adherence to ethical rules ( there were plenty of those current in antiquity , too , and they possessed all the disadvantages , while lacking the advantages , of the Jewish law ) . |
| 19 | Charles Manson was not merely a symptom of the drug age ; he was the epitome of a certain sickness that gripped some sections of society , by whom he was exalted as the inspiration for the killing of so-called pigs , the word daubed in blood on the living-room walls of director Roman Polanski 's home , after the so-called Sharon Tate murders , for which the bearded prophet of the drug age is still serving life . |
| 20 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
| 21 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |
| 22 | Such an interpretation is not merely a case of reading some preferred assumption into the silence on the subject of the Miller 's relationship with the Reeve that descends after the Reeve has finished his tale . |
| 23 | … the centralization of local government is not merely an issue of macroeconomic and financial policy . |
| 24 | The distribution of the whetstones which have the same petrology as the Group VI axes is not merely a reflection of the distribution of cemeteries as the type is absent in southern England . |
| 25 | His vow of homage was not merely a promise to be true to the emperor and to serve him against his enemies , but a promise to live in obedience to God and His law according to the best of each man 's strength and understanding . |
| 26 | It is then possible show that the hypersurface is not merely a coordinate singularity , but is actually a singularity of space-time in the sense that there does not exist a C 1 extension from region II to this surface . |
| 27 | The answer is not merely a description of the event but a description of the relationship of signifying elements presented with their decoded meaning , thus : |
| 28 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 29 | Before we look at students ' construction of science , it is important to stress that students ' decision to study science was not merely a consequence of their preferring it to other subjects , or being good at it , but the result of schooling and family influences . |
| 30 | But Charles was not merely a defender , and while his ancestors had often been weakened through internal dissent among the Frankish nobility , he had total command and a clear field of action based upon considerable personal and state resources . |