Example sentences of "was not merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not merely a debt repaid , but a duty fulfilled . |
| 3 | It was obvious that his visit had been planned and was not merely a sudden idea of Doyle 's . |
| 4 | This preoccupation with death and judgment was not merely a cultural phenomenon it was deliberate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This work was not merely a move towards understanding molecular bonding but also the material for an entire branch of chemistry . |
| 8 | It was not merely a Bolshevik view that empire was the source of a quiescent working class . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These and other habitualised forms of ‘ race-thinking ’ were further compounded in the fifties by social and economic factors which kept Blacks and Whites largely separate within their own sets of social networks and spaces , ‘ Crossing the line ’ was not merely a matter of breaking the boundaries of colour-based divisions in a figurative sense ; it was also often literally a matter of transgressing geographical boundaries : often with violent consequences . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place . |
| 13 | This was not merely a question of parliamentary tactics . |
| 14 | The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion , of normal factional loyalties . |
| 15 | It was not merely a matter of European machines or European clothes ( though the adoption of such uncomfortable dress in tropical countries is certainly a testimony to the prestige of European civilization ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | India was not merely a passive recipient of Persian artistic ideas , however . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was not merely a state of mind , it was a real location in the heart of France . |
| 20 | The original lessee was not merely a guarantor or surety . |
| 21 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |
| 22 | This event , together with the Anti-Fascist Congress held at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in June 1933 , was not merely a major personal triumph for Barbusse in his struggle for co-operative politics . |
| 23 | In a related way , the religious morality of repealers was not merely a passive vehicle for feminist politics ; it actively empowered women and gave them the confidence to develop critical concepts . |
| 24 | But the madrigal was not merely a new art form — it had nothing in common with the trecento madrigal except the name — but a landmark in a revolution of which we have already seen the beginnings in the frottole and laudi spirituali and occasional passages in the Italian-influenced northerners from Dufay onward . |
| 25 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 26 | Treatment was not merely a matter of prescribing herbal medicines , but a whole regimen which controlled the diet and the life-style . |
| 27 | To him , Labour was not merely a political party ; subscription to it entailed embracing the faith , the doctrine of socialism , an that was to embrace an . |
| 28 | Commenting on the meeting , a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Dec. 5 that the Dalai Lama was not merely a religious figure , but a " political exile , who has long been engaged in activities aimed at splitting China and disrupting national unity " . |
| 29 | Gordon stressed that the aim was to produce an efficient service to our customers and was not merely a means of policing staff levels . |
| 30 | The king was not merely a tribal chieftain and warlord , ravaging and conquering , he was a representative of Christ , " the king " , on earth . |