But Mr. Bernard was not just marking time.
It's a big year for this world-class festival, not just marking its 21st birthday, but also the crucial agreement of the EFG private banking group to be its principal sponsor for the next three years, in a deal that secures the event's medium-term future.
"Kubla Khan, which in his atlas was the symbol of complete knowledge of the world, did not just mark all the real cities of the past, present and future, but also all the imaginary cities – whether they be called New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tarnow, Harmony, New-Lanark, Icaria".
The stela did not just mark off a period of time; it has been argued that it physically embodied that period of time.
We mother each day with our eyes wide open, not just marking the fatigue and the fevers and the falls that happen without warning -- not just for these things, no.
"We weren't just marking time.
In other words, the metabolites weren't just marking activity that was happening elsewhere in the body; they also may have been sparking some of that activity directly.
Next week's inauguration doesn't just mark the start of a new era – it tells us lots about the new President's musical tastes.
These battered volumes – the pages torn, the ink faded, the covers hanging off – don't just mark the passing of the years.
The lyric doesn't just mark his own place within hip-hop but reveals a knot of assumptions about race, class and privilege.
