Example sentences of "[to-vb] [not/n't] just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I share the desire of my hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich ( Mrs. Dunwoody ) in wanting to see not just passenger traffic but freight able to make a direct contact with the channel tunnel from all parts of the country , especially the north and the north-west . |
| 2 | From Boppard you can easily helm your car to view not just panorama after wonderful river panorama , but to great sights such as the Loreley rock , form which a rogue mermaid was said to have lured sailors to their death . |
| 3 | The Burton Group came to own not just Burtons but Debenhams , Principles , Top Shop , Evans , Champion Sports and Radius — an awful lot of the average high street . |
| 4 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 5 | Better margins on such items and a less Luddite approach to VAT have helped , but fundamentally it is the trend to one-stop leisure shopping that has spurred the modern book retailer to stock not just stationery , but T-shirts , videos , CDs , cassettes and games and a host of other merchandise . |
| 6 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 7 | Wealthy clubs like Real Madrid were able to buy such players as the brilliant Hungarian forward Ferenc Puskas , beginning to trawl not just South America , but also England ( Jimmy Greaves , Joe Baker , Denis Law , Gerry Hitchens , John Charles ) for talent . |
| 8 | The Italian movement for democratic psychiatry proved so attractive and drew such European interest purely because in its attempts to place services fairly and squarely in the community it acknowledged that it was essential to involve not just health and social services , but also employment , leisure , housing , the trade union movement , and the whole panoply of services . |
| 9 | ‘ To become not just members of their parish families but also of the Church of Lancaster . |