Example sentences of "[not/n't] merely the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 2 | The agreement must be clear or the inducement strong — not merely the making of an interim payment as happened in Deerness v John R Keeble & Son ( Brantham ) Ltd . |
| 3 | Writing the play brought back a whole period of his early life : not merely the marriage to Vivien but the friendship with Emily Hale . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Only NEP , with its circulation of commodities and the laws of the market — not merely the exchange of products — could provide this economic foundation . |
| 6 | In other words , it is not merely the circumstances of the immediate production process which determine if labour is productive , but the total social circumstances , including the use to which products are put , which determine post hoc whether the labour involved has been productive or not . |
| 7 | An evident aim of the right wing is not merely the intimidation of individuals but also the discrediting of the two major independent universities as educational institutions . |
| 8 | English is not merely the medium of our thought , it is the very stuff and process of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 11 | One could also say more impersonally that the statement ‘ It is raining ’ expresses the belief , not merely the speaker 's belief , that it is raining . |
| 12 | Not merely the presence and procedures of the crown courts , but also the availability of writs , helped to swell the business of the king 's judges . |
| 13 | A second guideline which emerges from this decision is that the application of the reasonableness test is not merely the exercise of a discretion , but is a decision . |
| 14 | Yet the issue at stake , is not merely the content of the final examination . |
| 15 | The workers for whom employers competed were not merely the ones with the bargaining strength to make unions practicable , but also those most aware that ‘ the market ’ alone guaranteed them neither security nor what they thought they had a right to . |
| 16 | Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards and generally easy credit facilities is not merely the privilege of the rich but can be a devastating condition in which inappropriate grandiosity repeatedly causes havoc with all efforts towards financial prudence . |
| 17 | It is not merely the passivity but the subjugation of opinion . |
| 18 | But the greatest drop of all is in the value of large limousines and executive expresses , which have been hit by a number of factors — not merely the recession . |
| 19 | And this one is a very interesting project because it 's being done under the director of , direction of Dr. Michael Eraut in the University , but it involves not merely the University but the East Sussex County Council . |
| 20 | Job evaluation , however , was an ideal application for the use of interactive computing during negotiations in that : ( i ) the issues were clear cut and technical ( no elements of pure judgement , such as the value of a cooperation clause , were present , for example ) ; ( ii ) several different facets of the outcome were important ( grade specific rates of upgrading being relevant , not merely the overall upgrading figure ; the effect on individual formations , not just the overall position ) making manual calculations particularly slow and cumbersome . |
| 21 | It is clearly important to identify not merely the issue of the relationship between different levels of elected government but also the existence of a variety of organizations whose relationships to either central or local governments , or both , is often ambiguous : the health authorities , the Manpower Services Commissions , the University Grants Committee and the universities , the New Town Corporations and so on . |
| 22 | Many of the bathers had not merely the posture but the bulk of wallowing hippopotami . |
| 23 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |
| 24 | This deposited material is mainly removed by the waves so that at night , when the algae emit carbon dioxide , the ensuing greater acidity of the sea water causes a chemical attack on the rock itself and not merely the redissolving of the finely divided material precipitated during the day . |
| 25 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 26 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 27 | The court recognised , however , that circumstances may arise which require not merely the carrying out of a fresh balancing exercise but the disclosure of documents within this otherwise immune class because of some yet more potent countervailing public interest . |
| 28 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 29 | But the expectations involved in roles are not simply one-directional ; it is not merely the case that a person is expected to play a role in certain typical ways . |
| 30 | It is not merely the case that some subjects have been numerically dominated by men and others numerically dominated by women ; as Keller ( 1983 ) has argued , science is generally regarded as more masculine than the arts : |