Example sentences of "[be] not merely a " 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 | Further notes should be made during reviewing , so that you are not merely a passive recipient of information . |
| 3 | The effort will be well worth while and you will realise that you are not merely a " student " in the lay understanding of the term , but a professional person with a place in society . |
| 4 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 5 | The Brahmins who , thanks to the British , had been not merely a caste but a class , declined in economic status , and a new bourgeoisie appeared consisting of better-off farming families . |
| 6 | Chatham described them , in November 1777 , as ‘ the nursery and basis of our naval power ’ , for they had been not merely a dependable source of tar and timber , especially for masts , but of seamen ; the outbreak of hostilities meant that 18,000 American sailors were lost overnight to the British crown . |
| 7 | The occasional aberration in judgment aside , the curbing regulation has been not merely a success but possibly the finest piece of administration in modern times . |
| 8 | Who proved to be not merely a lively guide but a brilliant physicist and a secret poet . |
| 9 | Moreover , as they used to have introductory arrangements with finance houses for customers who wanted credit before 1977 , it is probable that much of their lending will be not merely a potential new alternative to but an actual ( lower-cost ) replacement of HP . |
| 10 | This new kind of educational institute was to be not merely a school but also a shelter from a harsh world . |
| 11 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 12 | It is not merely a question of its vastness ( it is the second largest country in the world , measuring 9.2 million square kilometres ) , but its breathtaking grandeur : God 's own country , as the Canadians delight to call it . |
| 13 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 14 | Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 15 | This is not merely a curious conundrum . |
| 16 | It is not merely a sexual offence , but one of the deepest breaches of trust which can take place in a family-based society . |
| 17 | All chapters include numerous references to the recent literature , but this is not merely a compilation of the work of others . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not merely a social call , Joan . |
| 19 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
| 20 | It is not merely a matter of the known constituents of food ; fibre , protein , carbohydrates , fats , vitamins , minerals , and trace elements in the correct proportions . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And this is not merely a bureaucratic exercise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 25 | Here the ‘ tune ’ is not merely a luxuriating tonal resolution in the relative major , but a radiant affirmation that the struggle is over ( not for long admittedly ) , and that we have all gained immeasurably for having experienced it . |
| 26 | It is not merely a matter of whether planning permission is required and , if so , whether it is likely to be granted , but also of how long it will take . |
| 27 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 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 | This is not merely a matter of tiresome tolerance according to some airy-fairy principle of political philosophy . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |