Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a service could act not only as a mediator between users and official agencies , but also deal with those aspects of heroin use that these agencies are unable or unwilling to resolve . |
| 2 | The book 's intended not just as a guide for visitors , but as a chance for locals to get a fresh look at familiar sights . |
| 3 | It 's contracting not only as regards the Walsall trade , but for the simple reason that hides and skins at ma v very largely found in the countries of Asia , Africa and South America . |
| 4 | As for the G protein-linked receptors , signal transduction through tyrosine kinase receptors is an energy-requiring process because ATP is consumed not only as the two receptors interact ( autophosphorylation ) , but also during the subsequent phosphorylation of PLC- γ 1 ( Box 2 ) . |
| 5 | Some of these documents remain not only as important records of passed time but as superb images in their own right . |
| 6 | Men like him became lynchpins in Sussex rural society , serving not only as tenant farmers but also as parish churchwardens and constables , helping to maintain a semblance of order and to interpret the gentry 's will in their communities . |
| 7 | In the seventeenth century Herbert saw this kind of understanding as a form of prayer which he describes not only as " God 's breath in man returning to his birth " but as an illumination in terms which Rolle and Hilton would have recognised : Church bels beyond the starres heard , the soul 's bloud , The land of spices ; something understood . |
| 8 | To stand on this dusky wharf , bruised by a drum of creosote , and acting not even as the convent chaplain , but as some kind of school attendance officer ! |
| 9 | He has been ‘ governor ’ since 1947 and during this time has taken on most of us as recruits , acting not only as the boss but as adviser of finance , law , education and various other problems . |
| 10 | The nearby Nagacoils act not only as testaments to the fact that the devotee 's prayers have been answered but as tributes to the Serpent Goddess . |
| 11 | The school ‘ plant ’ began to be seen not just as a resource which could be used for adult education or the occasional PTA dance and parents ' meeting . |
| 12 | The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ? |
| 13 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 14 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 15 | Jesus is seen not only as Lord of the world , but also as Lord of all human-relationships . |
| 16 | The few non-users of search , however , are seen not only as good at training people but also keeping them . |
| 17 | As Tizard points out , whereas we argue about whether any extra familial care is desirable for very young children , and whether it can be financed on a low cost basis , once children reach the age of 5 , full-time education outside the family is seen not only as desirable but as compulsory , and there is enormous annual expenditure by local authorities to make schooling available free of charge to all . |
| 18 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 19 | Within the discourse of the Report , utilitarian and vocational education are seen not only as inadequate vehicles for the effective " cultural nationalization " of the working and lower middle classes , but also as positively dangerous to the extent that they generate unfulfilled cultural and economic expectations . |
| 20 | … there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 21 | Thus there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 22 | While these difficult categorizations , either in their most serious and sustained forms , or in their commonly received popular forms , retain or attempt to retain their position above society — above the historical socio-material process or the full , undelimited cultural process — they have to be seen not only as intellectually unsatisfactory but as , in themselves , disguised social processes . |
| 23 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 24 | In the south-east corner of the massif , however , this fall is interrupted by other heights of sufficient stature and character to be classed not merely as foothills but as separate entities deserving individual attention : of these , Norber and Moughton , enclosing between them the lonely valley of Crummackdale , display features of unusual interest . |
| 25 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 26 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 27 | New Historicism offers a possible negotiation of the problem Samuel sees not only as pedagogically necessary but as politically necessary too . |
| 28 | But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment , but to protect society . |
| 29 | I refer to the way in which higher education , as an institution within society , acts not just as a vehicle for economic reproduction within the social classes , but also as a means of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ . |
| 30 | The set prayers of the Church he defended not only as encouraged by Scripture but because their ‘ very form and solemnity helped that imbecility and weakness ’ which made individuals ‘ much less apt to perform unto God so heavenly a service with such affection of heart and disposition of our souls as is necessary ’ . |