Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 2 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 3 | The CEGB was not just briefing the Daily Telegraph . |
| 4 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 5 | But this network will not just serve the big occasions . |
| 6 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 7 | She wanted desperately to start a family — and not just to silence the constant enquiries of well-meaning friends and relatives . |
| 8 | But why go to the expense of elaborate shrouds and superfine linen coffin linings ; why not just put the naked body into the coffin and have done with it ? |
| 9 | The evidence they yield does not just quantify the token occurrence of existing category types , for the most part derived from intuition , but also suggests that the types themselves stand in need of revision so that the language as abstractly conceived by the linguist is brought into closer correspondence with the language as actually realized by the user . |
| 10 | Communion actually the Holy Communion has become so much more important to us and so much more exciting to us because we 're not just celebrating the living Christ we 're also celebrating the crucified Christ and we 're simply meeting our pain and our joys together in communion with him . |
| 11 | On the other hand , Labour and other opposition parties , can not just reassert the old statist notions about public funding of public production . |
| 12 | He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation . |
| 13 | ‘ Why not just hang the poor sod ? ’ |
| 14 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 15 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 16 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 17 | And we do n't just want the big bulls . |
| 18 | I do n't just mean the other stuff . ’ |
| 19 | But Meningitis does n't just claim the young … |
| 20 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 21 | I understand ; I mean , you want to know that someone is n't just making the whole thing up when they talk about a man being that special to them . |
| 22 | Do n't just take the basic subject today . |
| 23 | And do n't just target the obvious bugbears ( remember , ‘ positive ’ things like money , possessions , and opportunity can be stressful in excess ) . |
| 24 | Rhys considers it unwise to attempt radically to alter taxes on large cars , as proposed by Labour : ‘ You ca n't just decimate the luxury car trade , ’ he says , ‘ Most big cars may well come from Germany but you have to consider how it would affect the dealer network . ’ |