Example sentences of "not [adv] a question of " in BNC.

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1 Privatisation , then , is not only a question of secularisation .
2 But in Russia reform is not only a question of getting the principles right .
3 It is not only a question of social attitudes to divorce .
4 It is not only a question of there being a number of versions for popular plays , such as Doctor Faustus , which were revived over a forty- or fifty-year period resulting in corrupted , revised , or differing texts .
5 It is not only a question of many Labour-controlled councils not bothering to collect the community charge .
6 Perhaps we could all agree that it is not only a question of money .
7 Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location .
8 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 .
9 This was not merely a question of parliamentary tactics .
10 The appropriate analogy for the structural weakness of sociology in this respect is the social reality sociologists study : sexism is not merely a question of institutional discrimination against women , but the schema of underlying values is also implicated .
11 ‘ It is not merely a question of unlawful sexual intercourse with a person who may not be in a position to give true consent .
12 This is not merely a question of allocative efficiency , which we might answer by considering the resources tied up in looking after the sick or the extra output that healthier workers could produce .
13 It was not just a question of climate as the British sometimes liked to think .
14 But it is not just a question of Turks in Berlin or even Turks in West Germany .
15 It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines .
16 It is not just a question of providing more information .
17 But it was not just a question of the physical environment ; discipline was also integral to the control of the mental environment of individuals ; it was part and parcel of self-respect , self-control and perseverance , as well as the ability to shape the nature of one 's own existence .
18 It 's not just a question of having a good old chat about the wild 30's .
19 Success as a jockey is not just a question of riding winners .
20 It was not just a question of such obvious policy differences as the question of whether Nato should continue to exist — there were differences of emphasis , too .
21 It is not just a question of the monarchy to me .
22 The sacred canopy of a still Christian England is not just a question of shared beliefs and a common moral perspective : it is an involvement in communal , religious and social rituals which bind people together .
23 KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever .
24 The stakes are high : it is not just a question of particular social groups ( ‘ What is it to be Black ? ’ ,
25 It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other .
26 It was not just a question of economics .
27 The process is much more serious for primitive society , however , for getting older in this sort of world is not just a question of securing certain basic legal rights as it is for us , but is fundamentally concerned with acquiring prestige .
28 It is not just a question of social class .
29 But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap .
30 Agrarian reform when it was finally announced in March 1980 was not just a question of too little too late .
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