Example sentences of "[noun] not merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Train your eyes not merely to look but also to see . |
| 2 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
| 3 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
| 4 | His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution . |
| 5 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 6 | Outlining his " America First " platform , Buchanan stated his intention not merely to challenge Bush , but to transform the political debate surrounding his party 's choice of nominee . |
| 7 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |
| 8 | We must persuade industry not merely to give away their tax- deductible loot as a sop to worthy environmental causes and charities but actually to find ways of integrating environmental capital into their accounts , as part of their business — a kind of natural account — a problem we are researching at the moment . |
| 9 | As a common carrier , the NVOCC enters into contracts of affreightment with his shipper , issues his own bill of lading , and assumes full responsibility for the carriage not merely from port of shipment to port of discharge , but from the point of origin to point of destination . |
| 10 | Before very long , however , it was to be made abundantly clear to her that legal equality was not enough ; the ability to exert force was the key not merely to ascendancy , but also to genuine equality . |
| 11 | Illustrious educational institutions not merely offered them places , but also attempted to entice them . |
| 12 | It is those rather less well-born Elizabeth , Emma , and particularly Fanny — whose livelier feelings will make Pemberley , Donwell Abbey , and Mansfield Park not merely great houses , but comfortable homes . |
| 13 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 14 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 15 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |
| 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 | We tend nowadays to see these generations not merely in terms of the underlying electronic technology , but also in terms of the organization of the hardware and software involved in a computer system ; thus the transition to the fourth generation can be seen more as a change in the way that computer systems are organized ( with the use of such techniques as virtual storage and distributed intelligence ) , than as a change in the underlying technology . |
| 18 | A fairly conventional view — but here it is transformed by an argument that makes Caliban not merely the boar , minister of the lustful Venus — in contrast to Prospero , who , like Adonis , is tediously keen on chastity — but the hero of the piece , and indeed of the collected works . |
| 19 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 20 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 21 | The rules relating to succession to the Crown thus provide for the identification not merely of a part of Parliament but for that of the head of state in all respects . |
| 22 | The answer follows through : it is , as a minimum , to provide the graduates of higher education with the capacity not merely to go on learning , but also to go on being critical of all they encounter in thought and action . |
| 23 | The main obstacles to normalizing relations appeared to be North Korea 's unwillingness to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and Japan 's refusal to accede to the North 's demand for compensation not merely for the period of Japan 's colonization of the country ( 1910-45 ) but also for the post-Pacific War period . |
| 24 | He has obligations not merely to the students who come to him to read for a degree , but still more towards the teeming population outside the University walls , most of whom have not so much as " heard whether there be any Holy Ghost " . |
| 25 | There would only be reason for despair if more general affluence had been accompanied by a withdrawal from the regard for precious substances , since this would imply rejection of the notion of excellence , the basis not merely of cultural advance but of the very attainment of humanity . |
| 26 | He was utterly amiable and without vice and he gave off a constant aura not merely of noxious vapours but of bonhomie . |
| 27 | There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation . |
| 28 | Acting on that basis , the kind of socialism that he advocated was then , was guild socialism , or more popularly nowadays , workers ' control , and what he would have hoped to see was something which , most mysteriously , does n't yet even now seem to be coming to the fore , the use of industrial power by the workers not merely for economic advantage but for political ends . |
| 29 | The forthcoming contest was of importance not merely because of California 's size and prestige , but also because the state was expected to gain another six or seven seats in the federal legislature as a result of the redistribution due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 30 | In addition , the rapid expansion of Christian churches in parts of the Third World ( contrasting very markedly with what sometimes appears to be a steady decline in the west ) has led those churches increasingly to feel the need not merely to copy the styles of life , worship and theology developed in western Christianity , but to develop others appropriate to their own setting . |