Example sentences of "not [adv] as a [noun] " 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 | A compendium of assumptions about women is the sometimes quoted list of advantages and disadvantages ( to the employer ) of the woman worker in the printing trade ( not just as a compositor ) compiled by the 1904 survey edited by Ramsay Macdonald : The advantages of the woman worker are : 1 . |
| 3 | I therefore am thanking you not , not just as a courtesy but in order to convey just how important your efforts are and just how important the seventy fifth birthday appeal is going to be next year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Organiser Andrew Gemmell said the rare breeds were growing in popularity , with more farmers taking them on , not just as a hobby but as livestock to help out on farms . |
| 6 | Some policies require the policy ‘ excess ’ to be triggered in regard to any costs incurred by insurers , not just as a contribution to final settlement . |
| 7 | He only wished Hans were with him , not just as a drinking partner but also because he had always been the brains of the duo . |
| 8 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Peony preferred to be regarded for herself and not just as a stamp of her mother 's , for her mother was beautiful , but Peony knew that although she did look the pattern of her mother , she had not her beauty or her presence . |
| 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 first essential of intensive fieldwork is that the fieldworker should be able to recognize everyone in his vicinity , not just as a set of individuals but as a set of individuals holding named titles to office who consider themselves to be related to one another in a particular way . |
| 13 | And so , according to Todd , not only is variation in family types an interesting further element of the cultural mosaic , it is also linked to other aspects of that mosaic ; as such , it requires understanding , as a part of the whole and not just as a thing in its own right . |
| 14 | She observes , for example , that gender may affect language use in a given situation not just as a property of the speaker but also as a characteristic of the addressee ; the determining factor might be who is being spoken to rather than who is speaking . |
| 15 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 16 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | To do this , education has to be seen as a continuing life process linked to social and economic activity at all points and not just as a precursor to employment and a dependent adjunct thereafter . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I do n't go along with that , and not just as a matter of personal pride . |
| 21 | The careful thinking , the logic and the process of the thinking which are necessary for research , he suggests , have similarities with the work required for good practice ; and research itself should be seen , not just as a product but also a process . |
| 22 | The sexy singer believes she will be remembered not just as a pop queen but as a goddess figure — ‘ like Boadicea ’ . |
| 23 | But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment , but to protect society . |
| 24 | Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 27 | Finally , the corporation tax liability could differ between the two firms , not just as a result of the above differences , but because one firm has income from abroad , whereas the other does not ; similarly , capital gains tax liabilities can cause reported earnings to differ . |
| 28 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |
| 29 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |
| 30 | He argues that this activity should be seen , not just as an expression of poverty , but as a cause of it . |