Example sentences of "not merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was not merely a debt repaid , but a duty fulfilled . |
| 5 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | This is not merely a curious conundrum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was obvious that his visit had been planned and was not merely a sudden idea of Doyle 's . |
| 10 | This preoccupation with death and judgment was not merely a cultural phenomenon it was deliberate . |
| 11 | It is not merely a sexual offence , but one of the deepest breaches of trust which can take place in a family-based society . |
| 12 | Who proved to be not merely a lively guide but a brilliant physicist and a secret poet . |
| 13 | At any rate , non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective , not merely a moral one . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This work was not merely a move towards understanding molecular bonding but also the material for an entire branch of chemistry . |
| 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 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 20 | Napoleon III was an innovator , not merely a man of his time but frequently one who was ahead of it , and so he was determined that his Court would deliberately eschew the rigid exclusivity which was the hallmark of the traditional European court structure . |
| 21 | It was not merely a Bolshevik view that empire was the source of a quiescent working class . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's not merely a false stance though : the only person who knows the real Morrissey , his mother , has proved this on many occasions by telephoning Rough Trade 's office to complain about their handling of her delicate son . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Eating should be a pleasure and not merely a means of fuelling the body . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And this is not merely a bureaucratic exercise . |