Example sentences of "not merely [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frameworks tell your audience that you are not merely throwing large quantities of words at them . |
| 2 | However , as with the English infinitive , the speaker is not merely accepting this happening as a fact but is passing judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence : the verb regretter here expresses a " critical idea " through which the happening être venu is " viewed " ( Guillaume 1971a : 218 ) . |
| 3 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 4 | If that seems too simple , then let me put what I believe to be a far more cogent argument , By bringing ‘ God ’ into this , are we not merely shifting something off ourselves ? |
| 5 | Local authorities are therefore able to make or elaborate policies and are not merely implementing agencies . |
| 6 | It was therefore important to check that in embryonic wounds the epidermis was actively moving over the mesenchyme and not merely riding passively on mesenchymal contraction . |
| 7 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 8 | I mean it 's not merely recognizing that past land reforms did n't work , it 's a totally different policy . |
| 9 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 10 | It should be an inconvenience which ‘ materially interferes with the ordinary comfort of human existence , not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living , but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people ’ . |
| 11 | In such a theory the state is seen as not merely helping to reproduce the capitalist system in contradictory ways , but as being itself shaped by the class struggle which results from those contradictions . |
| 12 | The corporation understands that design is not merely styling and market hype . |
| 13 | I am not merely trying to preserve the tradition of my country . |
| 14 | His score is also notable for its choruses , particularly double choruses , which are accompanied — in contrast to the merely continuo supported solos — by the orchestra ( three violins and continuo for harpsichords , which are usually joined by arpe , liuti , tiorbe e violoni ) , not merely doubling the voices but sometimes playing independently : This orchestra is also employed in three unusually extended sinfonie to the Prologue and Second and Third Acts , that to the prologue consisting of 11 ( slow ) bars in quadruple time , a canzone of 32 bars with echo-effects of forte and piano emphasized by the scoring : 7 bars in triple time , and 21 in quadruple . |
| 15 | These are not merely reading for children but they form part of a shared British culture . |
| 16 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 17 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 18 | Durkheim and Weber , two immensely influential figures , spent a great deal of time not merely defining sociology 's subject matter , but arguing for and demonstrating what the consequences of each of their different conceptions might amount to as a disciplined inquiry . |
| 19 | What was at stake was not merely organising data in this way , but this was an inferential structure that could be used to accumulate knowledge systematically and , little by little , develop laws of social life . |
| 20 | ‘ The suspension is not merely hanging over Vinnie , it is hanging over me too . |
| 21 | The pupil is not merely acquiescing but willingly entering into alternative task-related endeavours . |
| 22 | The marking response can play a vital part in promoting this linguistic growth through establishing a dialogue , and not merely concerning itself with surface features of the writing , or the routine correction of technical errors . |
| 23 | That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him . |
| 24 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 25 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 26 | Does the Minister agree that something must be done to control imports of the drug known as Ecstasy , which is not merely creeping into schools in London but has reached teenagers in my constituency in south Devon ? |
| 27 | Regan makes no secret of the fact that he is not merely indulging in theoretical philosophy . |
| 28 | He was not merely indulging Ana . |
| 29 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 30 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |