Example sentences of "[was/were] not just [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 2 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 3 | Interviewer Diane Sawyer asked her : ‘ But he was not just a financial adviser ? ’ |
| 4 | This was not just a polite brush-off , for Steel-Maitland was anxious to find a seat for Hewins ( who was a tariff reform professor of economics who would be a great asset in parliament ) and finally managed to do so . |
| 5 | The ‘ Nation of Israel ’ , as Jesus , James and their contemporaries conceived it , was not just a geographical entity . |
| 6 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 7 | When the scandal broke the media too placed them there , confirming how odd and ungraspable it all was ; confirming , too , that this was not just a political morass , but cinema , and fun . |
| 8 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 9 | He wanted her to understand that the running was not just a pretty fancy , that he had been serious . |
| 10 | Graham was not just a kind elderly man , he was a passionate and knowledgeable gardener . |
| 11 | Turned out the girl was not just a devout Catholic who was only interested in improving her English but also the daughter of some big-shot industrialist with lots of connections at the Embassy … |
| 12 | In this respect Fforde believes that individualism was not just a particular strand of the Conservative tradition , but was the Conservative tradition , and that ‘ Tory Centrism , anti-capitalism , or paternalist interventionism ’ are ‘ phantoms of the historiographical imagination ’ . |
| 13 | The result showed that the curvature idea was not just a different way of looking at gravity from the old one , but a better way . |
| 14 | Nicola was not just a simpering and empty-headed blonde with a pleasant voice . |
| 15 | The point is that the monastic system was not just a spontaneous occurrence . |
| 16 | ICI , evidently , was not just a lacklustre chemicals conglomerate , but an industrial symbol , to be preserved at all costs as evidence of Britain 's continuing economic virility . |
| 17 | Another issue raised was that Europe was not just a commercial union but a global power bloc which would need to consider external relations outside Europe . |
| 18 | It was not just the usual enmities and silly Trollopian rivalries of a narrow society living very much in each other 's pockets . |
| 19 | It was not just the new layout of wide avenues and boulevards , the greenery , the light and the air . |
| 20 | But it was not just the new that offered business potential . |
| 21 | It was not just the inner cities . |
| 22 | But it was not just the short-lived weather which sent spirits soaring . |
| 23 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 24 | Showmanship was not just the accidental way in which British and American films were distributed , it was the essence of a whole phenomenon and the films of the English-language world can only be understood in this way . |
| 25 | It was not just the natural fear of a cruel crucifixion : suffused with the divine life , the person of Jesus could not die in any ordinary sense . |
| 26 | Thirdly , it was not just the bald declarations of innocence that impressed me , but the nature and quality of those declarations : there were passages in both books which , as in Meehan 's letters to me , had the sharp ring of truth . |
| 27 | It must be noted that leprosy was not just the twentieth-century disease known by that name but covered many other skin complaints ( see Leviticus 13 ) . |
| 28 | She felt light-headed and it was not just the swift change from lying down to standing . |
| 29 | The Prussian state , as often noted , was not just an external entity , but an entity profoundly incorporated into the consciousness of individual Germans . |
| 30 | This was not just an old man 's hatred of change ; the sonnet Steamboats , Viaducts , and Railways ( 1833 ) is surprisingly in favour of these evidences of man 's ability , and concludes : |