Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 2 | Instead of a lawn there would be a tangle of vegetation spreading seeds not just over the mini-meadow but on the cultivated soil of beds , borders , and vegetable plot . |
| 3 | Miss Bhutto is spitting fury , not just over the matter of the provincial assemblies , but also because she says that she was given fewer ministries in the caretaker government ( just under a quarter ) than she deserves . |
| 4 | Edward II 's reign saw a battle not just over royal taxes of the clergy , but about the body which should assent to these taxes . |
| 5 | With growing confidence , members from outside the immediate disciplinary fraternity can raise issues not just over resources ( important though these are ) , but over assumptions taken for granted within the discipline . |
| 6 | All this is felt to testify , not just to a general rankness and decay , but to a conflagration of another kind — to what will happen if the political and racial tensions of the island can no longer be contained . |
| 7 | This applies to every type of aircraft and not just to gliders . |
| 8 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 9 | Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century . |
| 10 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 11 | It means it will apply to everybody , not just to Grunwick strikers . |
| 12 | Phaedra , the all-powerful matriarch , conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus , who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty . |
| 13 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 14 | Twenty companies moved this year , 49 are set to go by 1993 and another 23 are considering moving — and not just to the suburbs . |
| 15 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 16 | The £92 million difference between the was plain enough , but how much was the unspoiled beauty of Twyford Down worth , not just to present-day citizens of Winchester but to future generations ? |
| 17 | Western managers talk about the need for firms to pay attention not just to shareholders but also to other ‘ stakeholders ’ such as customers , suppliers , employees and neighbours . |
| 18 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 19 | According to Albert Speer , Goebbels referred around this time not just to a ‘ leadership crisis ’ , but to a ‘ Leader crisis . |
| 20 | The Alliance , which increasingly became a de facto Nonconformist organization , existed not just to fight popery but Puseyism and also to coordinate Evangelical work . |
| 21 | Which was no doubt why it was important not just to the artists in this show , but also to others like Paul Nash , John Piper and Henry Moore . |
| 22 | ‘ Our task over the next few years is not just to be an effective Parliamentary opposition but to lead great national debates about the future direction of our country and to forge a new national consensus across a range of issues . ’ |
| 23 | Agribusiness refers not just to large-scale rural enterprises , but to concerns which have an integrated system of production and distribution . |
| 24 | Whatever the arguments , teachers face a challenging period of adjustment — not just to the procedural formalities of the National Curriculum and its prescriptive content , but also to the psychology of regulation . |
| 25 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 26 | Television also gave her the opportunity to stage a bravura farewell to the nation , not just to fellow MPs , in her last speech as Prime Minister . |
| 27 | The question of hedgerows , maintaining natural areas of woodland , etc. leads me to look at another area which causes concern not just to the RSPCA but many other animal welfare groups . |
| 28 | By this I mean we need to look to the cause of the problem , not just to the symptoms which can sometimes be the signs of a more serious underlying health problem ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 29 | However , we will find it of much more use in the context here to conceive of a knowledge worker as someone who actually adds value to the message itself , and not just to the message 's package , by processes of analysis , judgement , and higher-level decision making . |
| 30 | This actually applies to any symptom , not just to mental conditions . |