Example sentences of "[verb] not merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 2 | Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole . |
| 3 | That represents not merely an intensification of the use of the line but a change in its character . |
| 4 | A particular government department may , therefore , comprise not merely a central ‘ office ’ but also regional and even local offices , as the efficient transaction of the business of the department dictates . |
| 5 | Consent may thus be said to require not merely a knowledge of the physical facts of sexual intercourse but some elementary appreciation of the significance of the act in its biological , social and moral context . |
| 6 | The initial focus will be upon the notion of structural change that is employed in post-industrial arguments , which , it should be noted , is taken to represent not merely a change in the direction of the economy , but a shift from one type of economic system to another . |
| 7 | To be duz et débonaire , as the Confessor allegedly was , represented not merely a literary convention but a normal part of diplomatic and courtly intercourse . |
| 8 | In its full sense it connotes not merely an acquaintance with a certain number of terms , or the power of spelling these terms without gross mistakes . |
| 9 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 10 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 11 | The stages of cultural development , however , represent not merely a sequence of economic and social advances , but also of psychological ones . |