Example sentences of "not simply the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their criticism is not simply the embittered jealousy of defeated leaders ; it represents a feeling of betrayal . |
| 2 | The reason is not simply the preliminary nature of the manuscript . |
| 3 | Now it was not simply the male , but the circumcised male who was to be the full participant in his nation 's covenantal law and cultic activities . |
| 4 | However , it is not simply the type of service or resource which distinguishes one form of prevention from another . |
| 5 | Perhaps for this reason Judaism and Islam , particularly when they refer to the creative power of the god whom they follow , suggest that their deity is in fact the only god who exists and not simply the only god who is to be worshipped : |
| 6 | The process of creating a nation was not simply the imposition of a single political authority over a territory . |
| 7 | But for Marx and Engels the discovery of Ireland changed the motivation , not simply the strategic balance . |
| 8 | One reason for this , I would suggest , is that Brief Encounter is not simply the tearful tale of heterosexual romance that it appears to be : beneath , or alongside , or overlapping this narrative is another , quite specifically related to the homosexuality of its author . |
| 9 | Although climatic deterioration in the later Middle Ages certainly worsened the situation , these disasters were not simply the haphazard expression of hostile Nature . |
| 10 | The underclass in Dahrendorf 's account is not simply the product of unemployment . |
| 11 | The pleasure of the text stems at least in part from collective utopias , social wish fulfillment and social aspirations , and these are not simply the sublimated expression of more basic sexual desires . |
| 12 | Because this is a test of observation and not of memory , make sure you look at each item in relation to the others , noticing not simply the objects themselves but the pattern they form on the tray . |
| 13 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it is not simply the future of Henderson Island which is at stake . |
| 15 | It is not simply the extremity of the violence which concerns us : we found it extremely disturbing that highly explicit depictions of mutilation , savagery , menace and humiliation should be presented for the entertainment of an audience in a way that appeared to emphasise the pleasures of sadism . |
| 16 | It is not simply the information brought to the fore during the session itself which is significant , but also anything which may come to the patient 's mind between the end of that consultation and the beginning of the next . |
| 17 | Then there was not simply the death by drowning but the addition of the pain and violence which had preceded it . |
| 18 | Remember that a phobia is an illogical fear and not simply the natural caution with which we all treat potentially dangerous substances such as fire . |
| 19 | What is being defended is not simply the position of individuals in group A against challenge by outsiders . |
| 20 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 21 | From a Christian perspective cultural diversity is not simply the result of the interplay of sociological and environmental factors , it is a demonstration of the creative ingenuity of God . |
| 22 | The importance of the healing miracles for most Christians today is not simply the fact that Jesus performed them . |
| 23 | The fact is everything is negotiable in business , not simply the price . |
| 24 | And the place is not simply the background or backdrop against which the action occurs ; it plays its part in the drama . |
| 25 | Bill is not simply the Saturday voice of Grandstand , owner of the most taken-off tones in sport . |
| 26 | In summary , the Pacific is not simply the biggest and the deepest quarter of the world ocean . |
| 27 | To this it might be replied that it is not simply the case that the evaporation/solar-flares analogy is not sufficiently strong an analogy to justify our using the term ‘ afternoon ’ on the Sun ; it is no justification at all . |
| 28 | Jesus is therefore not simply the human instrument of God 's purposes , nor simply a man responding to divine grace : he is God come as man in order to work out and establish in himself the true destiny of man in friendship and communion with God . |
| 29 | There is a large measure of agreement within the literature that the structure of bargaining which becomes associated with a particular country 's industrial relations system is not simply the result of chance occurrence or historical accident , but develops instead because of identifiable forces . |
| 30 | State education was not simply the natural consequence of giving votes to the masses , or a belief in the need , as one Minister put it , to ‘ educate our masters ’ . |