Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not just [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't want the children from Columbia on the streets etcetera , because there 's sort of an awful helplessness about us , because we think we 're doing one person , how on earth can we actually do anything , you see if enough people think together that if possible the change happens , then it can happen , right , and you are actually the ones that are going to have to be considering that you are a world 's visitor , you are not just Tom and you 're not just Anthony right , erm , you 've really got to think , what about Jayne , there you are ideal Jayne |
| 2 | no I know it 's a bit early erm , but it 's not too early to start thinking that you are a world citizen , you 're not just Jayne and you 've got a contribution to make , because if you 've got this |
| 3 | They are not just creatures that have elected to live together in one communal dwelling , like human beings in some gigantic tower block . |
| 4 | It 's not just boxing and brute strength you 've got to do your homework . |
| 5 | And it 's not just Cancer and Heart Disease and Child Abuse and the Homeless and the Disabled — all of them in the utmost need of support . |
| 6 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not just luck that I look OK , ’ she says . |
| 8 | But it 's not just music that 's on offer at Lydiard. 50 000 litres of gas will be used to launch at least 100 hot air balloons … the climax , a Night Glow on Monday in which the balloons will be choreographed to music and fireworks . |
| 9 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 10 | And it 's not just father and son who are on opposite sides . |
| 11 | And er I think , I I agree , I agree with a lot of the demands that feminist women have made but , to kind of congregate it in that way , it 's bu , I mean a lot of wha er , white feminists have been attacked for excluding black women , and that 's one of the examples where you know , to be , to say that you 're a feminist , it 's not just men that you 're alienating , you 're also alienating other way . |
| 12 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 13 | Access and freedom-to-roam are issues dear to the heart of most Scots , but it is not just boots and shoes that are involved nowadays , but canoes , windsurfers , paragliders , boats of all kinds , and bikes . |
| 14 | In the business of safety it is not just accidents that cost — not being able to prove that you have accidents under control can be very expensive . |
| 15 | It is not just Whitehall that must change . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not just statistics that are involved , it is also research and information generally , ’ he said . |
| 17 | But it is not just knowledge that matters in this view of women 's education ; it is control over the learning process . |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't an easy task and shows members of the public it is not just fires the fire brigade attends and it is not just cats and dogs that vets deal with . ’ |
| 19 | But it is not just children that are abused . |