Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | This stage is reached not just as a result of the increasing complexity of the productive technology , in this case the development of agriculture , but because agriculture implies a growth in population density , an intensification of social intercourse , and an increased division of labour . |
| 32 | For the last century the Tay has been known not only as the largest , but also arguably as the best salmon river in Britain . |
| 33 | Because what is truly remarkable , given the nostalgic lament which has accompanied the subsequent displacement of this ‘ traditional way of life ’ , is that in their own historical time these emerging cultural institutions were greeted not only as something ‘ new ’ , but as signs of an alarming development among the British people which threatened to destroy the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 34 | The Mensheviks and SRs were portrayed not only as counter-revolutionaries but as vicious saboteurs , the treachery of Stalin 's various rivals was traced to their earliest participation in the party , and Stalin 's role in and before the revolution was inflated out of all recognition . |
| 35 | The government is experienced not merely as providing background amenities against which individuals pursue their choices , but as an external constraining and coercive organisation . |
| 36 | The sexy singer believes she will be remembered not just as a pop queen but as a goddess figure — ‘ like Boadicea ’ . |
| 37 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 38 | What we have to see is that Christ died not just as a self sacrifice not just because of injustice but he died as the atonement , to pay the price , for our sin . |
| 39 | Im not quite as down on the performance as others seem to be . |
| 40 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 41 | The social chapter is seen as unremarkable in terms of radical measures , supported not only as mainstream policy among the Tories ’ Christian Democrat sister-parties , but , until last week 's furore forced them to withdraw , by the British Tory Euro-MPs themselves . |
| 42 | These elements of local structure are conceived not only as important in their own right but as elements which serve to articulate the sets of social relationships in which the inhabitants participate so that these relationships constitute a field or network . |
| 43 | There would appear to be the need to develop for these and possibly many other applications , heat sensors sufficiently resistant to fire and high temperatures to act not only as actuating mechanisms for automatic systems but also to provide continuous readings of temperature in their permanent locations . |
| 44 | The planning officers ' report considered by the district council 's northern area planning subcommittee on March 24th stated : ‘ Initial comments indicate the council have not considered the current proposal in detail and have not therefore as yet decided to support the scheme , indeed some of the council have strong reservations ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ Our witness ’ he said , ‘ is to be for goodness ’ , which he defined not only as being ‘ honest , temperate , chaste ’ and leading an ‘ upright , decent , useful life ’ , but as the spirit or motivation behind all this . |