Example sentences of "[verb] not simply [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their injunctions did not simply denounce immorality . |
| 2 | His actions then ( in this case in calling the twelve ) did not simply relate to his immediate Jewish context , but are to be seen as a considered action undertaken in relation to his having founded the church . |
| 3 | It did not simply cover recruitment from within the circle . |
| 4 | The Wall Street Crash did not simply create havoc and ruin for stock market investors . |
| 5 | However , when she examined her cocoliche corpus ( 50 hours recorded from 50 speakers ) , Lavandera noted that the frequency of subjunctive forms in all environments was even lower than that observed in the Buenos Aires Spanish corpus ; moreover there was independent evidence that this low frequency did not simply reflect a poor command of Spanish by the immigrants . |
| 6 | The low level of unionization did not simply reflect apathy or a lack of militancy . |
| 7 | They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human . |
| 8 | The shire and hundred meetings did not simply serve the royal will . |
| 9 | This factor of material prosperity , which was already cited by Sombart ( 1906 ) at the beginning of this century as a partial explanation of the absence of any large-scale socialist movement in the US , acquired particularly great importance in the period following the Second World War , when economic growth took place more rapidly than ever before , and the question could be posed as to whether the US did not simply show to capitalist Europe the image of its own future — a future that would be characterized by a decline of the socialist movement , and indeed of all ideological revolutionary parties and movements . |
| 10 | But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material . |
| 11 | It did not simply result in a situation in which the Liberals won 2.2 per cent of the Commons seats in return for 19.3 per cent of the national vote since Labour also sneaked into office with only 37.1 per cent of the votes cast — less than the Conservative total . |
| 12 | There would be nothing , in principle , to prevent an ex-employee computer programmer writing a similar program by the exercise of his own mental effort provided he did not simply plagiarize his previous employer 's program . |
| 13 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 14 | Disenchanted Conservatives did not simply stay at home . |
| 15 | They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat . |
| 16 | ‘ Gerry Boden did not simply fall into the river and drown . |
| 17 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 18 | But he did not simply dismiss religion on this score ; rather he kept returning to reflect upon it . |
| 19 | Charles the Bald did not simply exploit the church within his kingdom : he had to work with not against the ecclesiastical grain . |
| 20 | Euripides , the intellectual Euripides , was the " poet of Socratic rationalism " and tragedy did not simply die after him : it was " Socratism " in its Euripidean embodiment that killed it , although this destructive tendency preceded Socrates himself and affected even Sophocles . |
| 21 | Vidor was to confess that he had started ‘ with the definite idea ’ that he wanted ‘ to make a film that did not simply come to town to play three days or a week and then was forgotten ’ and it was always his conviction that the proper subjects for such a film would be the beauty of rural America and the fundamental decency of ordinary Americans . |
| 22 | Beyond that he was a showman , a player in the tradition of Alex James , Charlie Tully , and Peter ‘ Ma Ba ’ McKenna , players who did not simply believe in beating defenders but in humiliating them . |
| 23 | They did not simply see an empty tomb and say : ‘ Coo , he must have risen ! ’ |
| 24 | Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing . |
| 25 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 26 | Offer words of encouragement and do not simply ignore the dog . |
| 27 | For this and other reasons we recommend that most of the fibre is obtained from vegetables , salad , and fruit , which does not have this effect , and that you do not simply spoon on dollops of bran in order to increase fibre intake . |
| 28 | But what emerges is a team of people who do not simply acquiesce with the head . |
| 29 | When Americans talk about an ‘ underclass ’ in their cities , they do not simply mean the poor ; they mean poor but healthy young people who can not or will not , but anyway do not , get a job . |
| 30 | By that , I do not simply mean the gods , but human culture itself as well . |