Example sentences of "not merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is that with Van Gogh art and life are not merely conditioned by each other to a greater degree than with any other artist , but actually merge with each other . |
| 2 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 3 | Ethical problems will surface , for no power-based organization likes to have its idiosyncrasies made public , and the anthropologist who is a member of the family and not merely a temporary visitor to the ‘ backyard ’ exotica can find that writing anything at all becomes crucially problematic . |
| 4 | It should then contain a generative formulation which can not easily be suppressed or denied ( T. Turner 1977 ) , for such domains of power lying between functional systems of control and disorder are , as Victor Turner ( 1977 : 45 ) reminds us , ‘ not merely reversive , they are often subversive , representing radical critiques of the central structures [ of a system ] ’ . |
| 5 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 6 | This shows that the punch is not merely an arm movement , but a powerful , co-ordinated body action . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Names , like words , in Hebrew are things ; they are not merely descriptive labellings , but possess a dynamic of their own which can be communicated to those touched by them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not merely in form , but in the old rhythms and modulations — the ‘ sounds ’ built deeply into his subconscious . |
| 12 | It has an immensely old lineage , not merely in Alcuin 's famous vox populi , vox dei ( ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ ) , but in Jewish societal awareness going back beyond Moses to Hammurabi . |
| 13 | Not merely poetry in motion , but surrealist poetry ! |
| 14 | Professor Pacey referred to Layton as ‘ a poet of revolutionary individualism , ’ and there can be no doubt that that individualism was a common tie , and not merely religiously but in every way . |
| 15 | Not merely welcomed among them , but escorted around the country by them to various literary and poetry events , and often presented to their confrères as their protégé . |
| 16 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 17 | Leonard was a natural choice for the first of the new series , both in bearing and background he represented , not merely McGill , but Canada itself ; he was accordingly approached . |
| 18 | It was not merely a debt repaid , but a duty fulfilled . |
| 19 | And we may see another reason for the ambiguity in Leonard : Ashkenazi Jews expressed themselves in Yiddish , which was not merely their language ( resting on 16th-century Middle High German and many Slavic loan-words ) but in a particular sense a reflection of their world , their universe . |
| 20 | The sense of delight , of gentle wonder , the startled realisation of his sense of her bodily perfection and spiritual grace is consummated not merely in their mutual passion but more enduringly in that oneness which is beyond time and space , which understands the fragility of love as well as its strengths , its ethereal qualities as well as its physical needs . |
| 21 | The naturalistic instinct has been to claim that mind somehow creates generality in a sense stronger than that which Aristotle allows ; it does not merely release generality from its potential state in matter , but fabricates it . |
| 22 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 23 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 24 | So the flight from consciousness is the flight from any grasp on the intrinsic nature of any properties — not merely , as with Russell , of properties in the external world , but also of the features in our experience . |
| 25 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 26 | There is the unity of the moment : different tactile and proprioceptive sensations amount to a coherent body image ; different visual sensations cohere to a visual field ; and sensations from different modalities converge to a general sensory field , an organized moment-by-moment presence of a world , so that the feeling in my hand as I hold a stone , the sight of the sea and the sound of the seagull behind me are all not merely present but co-present . |
| 27 | Not merely that , I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that was n't ! |
| 28 | Not merely was the transformation great in itself but , of course , on the largest commuter network under single ownership in the world — equating to the complete Dutch or Belgian railways , carrying two million passengers daily and accounting for 41 per cent of all commuters into central London . |
| 29 | When reading this chapter , remember that not merely is NSE the largest of BR 's businesses but in 1989 ranked as the 106th largest business of every kind in Britain . |
| 30 | The decade ended with the railway hotels not merely privatised but in many cases under second and third owners , generally poorer in standard and distinctly without the nation having benefited ( since they ran at a profit anyway ) , with Travellers-Fare privatised and healthier ( both profitwise and in what they served ) , and with InterCity rethinking the role of the restaurant car and with many chefs still preparing meals on board . |