Example sentences of "not just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 2 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 3 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |
| 4 | This stage is reached not just as a result of the increasing complexity of the productive technology , in this case the development of agriculture , but because agriculture implies a growth in population density , an intensification of social intercourse , and an increased division of labour . |
| 5 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 6 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 7 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 8 | I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window . |
| 9 | She was aware of her now , not just as a daft , cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself , fearful and isolated . |
| 10 | Later , I reflected that the Tudors came to Ireland not just as rulers , but as missionaries-by-force , in Islamic style , determined to change the people 's religion . |
| 11 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 12 | He argues that this activity should be seen , not just as an expression of poverty , but as a cause of it . |
| 13 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 14 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 15 | In particular , teachers will somehow have to be ‘ managed ’ to participate in change , not just as foot soldiers obedient to curriculum manager ‘ officers ’ , but as genuine participant professionals . |
| 16 | Billy Callender , Palace 's regular goalkeeper from 1926–32 , was thought by some of his contemporaries to have sufficient skill and character to follow his illustrious predecessor , Jack Alderson , not just as the Crystal Palace custodian but also the full England International Side itself . |
| 17 | To do this , education has to be seen as a continuing life process linked to social and economic activity at all points and not just as a precursor to employment and a dependent adjunct thereafter . |
| 18 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 19 | They come into the world not just as bundles of flesh and bone but with already distinctive personalities capable of initiating different responses from those around them . |
| 20 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 21 | She may find it difficult not to regard you still as the child who would do her bidding without question ; and you have to learn to see her , not just as your mother , but as a ‘ person ’ too , with good and bad traits in her character just like everyone else — not expecting silver-haired sainthood from her simply because she gave birth to you . |
| 22 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 23 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 24 | But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment , but to protect society . |
| 25 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 26 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 27 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 28 | Profits are increasingly being generated by treating pubs not just as places to sell large volumes of beer but as broader retail outlets promoting food and a range of drinks . |
| 29 | Kirk came into the project not just as actor , having ensured that his own production company , Bryna , would co-produce with director Richard Quine 's own production company . |
| 30 | Some policies require the policy ‘ excess ’ to be triggered in regard to any costs incurred by insurers , not just as a contribution to final settlement . |