There were periodic visits from a shaman, intended not so much to cure Lia as to ease her suffering.
More than a dozen questions followed, intended not so much to elicit information about the theft, but rather to engage the defendant on a personal level.
The grates on Artie's windows are intended not so much to keep people out as to keep the suicidal Bananas in.
But the show, like so many others these days, was intended not so much for the fleeting moment as it was for the Web.
That has meant a Web-oriented campaign, intended not so much to sell the movie as to make people ask for it.
"Cool It," Ms. Timoner said, was intended not so much to correct "An Inconvenient Truth," which raises the specter of devastation caused by climate change, as to temper its message with an appeal for practical solutions.
For a presidential meeting that is intended not so much for substantive agreements as for relationship-building between Mr. Obama and Mr. Xi, Mrs. Obama's absence will rule out some extra dollops of personal diplomacy.
But he never shifted from the conviction that political economy had revealed creation's moral laws, just as Newton had revealed its physical ones, and that these were intended not so much to improve our lot as to improve our character.
But in Sunnyside, long a working-class Irish enclave in northwestern Queens that is now home to a jumble of ethnicities, the eruv is intended not so much to make life easier for the existing Orthodox community as to recruit members.
A four-door truck with seats for five or six, plus a versatile cargo bed, it is a cross between pickup and sport utility vehicle, and it is intended not so much for heavy cargo and back-breaking labor as for hauling people and playthings.
