Example sentences of "not merely as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if , with the name , an extra dimension of personality is added — not merely as a pious recollection of the great , but as a stimulus ( at times a goad ) to the one so named . |
| 2 | On both her outings Silk Slippers has thrust her attractive nose in front just where it matters and in so doing has established herself not merely as a valuable stud prospect , but an exciting candidate for next year 's 1,000 Guineas and Oaks . |
| 3 | Because only in this way we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence . |
| 4 | In the name of God , and speaking of the Sultan , not merely as a man , but as the Great Assassin , I say ‘ God damn the Sultan ! ’ |
| 5 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 6 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 7 | But this brutality and coercion has been seen not merely as a question of physical or ‘ external ’ coercion or constraint ; the force of subjection has also been seen as a psychic one , invading women 's very selves . |
| 8 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 9 | Like Galileo , he was committed to the Copernican system as a cosmology and not merely as a mathematical hypothesis . |
| 10 | Served not merely as a defence but as palace for bishops and archbishops of St Andrews . |
| 11 | Language was to be used as a means for learning , not merely as a way of demonstrating what had been learnt . |
| 12 | The company itself is treated not merely as a person , the subject of rights and duties , but also as a res , the object of rights and duties . |
| 13 | Three preoccupations stand out clearly : music ( especially , though not at first , Wagner ) , philosophy ( the ubiquitous Schopenhauer ) , and the Greeks — the Greeks not merely as a professional concern , but as a personal ideal in conflict with professional norms : here , as will become apparent , Nietzsche is a whole-hearted successor of the earlier generations of Romantic Hellenists . |
| 14 | He was , perhaps , more powerfully so , and not merely as a matter of proximate generation but precisely because such strenuous efforts had been made to exclude him . |
| 15 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 16 | Spenser uses the commonplace theory of correspondences not merely as a convenient poetic device , but to reflect his belief in linkages and parallels among ( from our perspective ) apparently diverse ideas . |
| 17 | In the one set of cases , the adjective is used not merely as a subordinate element in qualification but also to apply a property directly to the entity designated by the noun , the head word of the phrase ; in the other the adjective mentions the same property but it is merely , in some way , to be associated with that entity ; it is certainly intended to assist in entity-identification — and that is why it is there — but as a property it actually belongs to someone or something else . |
| 18 | This highlights the importance of active oral history programs , not merely as a by-product of a celebratory history , but as a routine function of the pro-active corporate records manager . |
| 19 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 20 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |