Example sentences of "[verb] not simply [vb infin] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles the Bald did not simply exploit the church within his kingdom : he had to work with not against the ecclesiastical grain . |
| 2 | Yet they did not simply follow the views of the Foreign Office where disillusionment with the USSR was rapidly increasing . |
| 3 | Offer words of encouragement and do not simply ignore the dog . |
| 4 | By that , I do not simply mean the gods , but human culture itself as well . |
| 5 | It is not a mere reflection of it ; the media do not simply report the world for us in any ‘ neutral ’ or ‘ objective ’ sense , they interpret the world for us . |
| 6 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 7 | Bureaucracies do not simply enter the policy-making process at the stage of implementation . |
| 8 | The modern nuclear or conjugal family , however , does not simply fulfil the function of socializing children ; according to Parsons , it also fulfils functions for adults . |
| 9 | It does not simply make the claim that one difference is more important than all the others but articulates all further identifications in terms of a primary sexual identification . |
| 10 | What is needed is that disability arts ( and the disability movement ) does not simply imitate the view of the world that pleases white , middle-class males . |
| 11 | Alternatively , is it possible to find another way altogether , a way which does not simply resolve the dilemma , but one which transforms the problem into a solution ? |
| 12 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 13 | There is a kind of mystical , powerful writing which does not simply evoke the spirit of place in order to determine action but seeks to converse with it , enter into a dialogue with all that has gone before . |