Example sentences of "be not just a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not just a child . ’ |
| 2 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 3 | I am not just a snake he said . |
| 4 | I am not just a teacher , I 'm so much more than that ! |
| 5 | Taxes are not just a way of paying for welfare : they can be a way of promoting welfare too . |
| 6 | Holidays abroad are not just a chance to unwind , they 're an opportunity to taste a different culture , see how other people live . |
| 7 | There does not appear to have been an account taken of the of the factors that may reduce traffic on the A sixty one er and ways of ameliorating the current problems on the road which are not just a question of the volumes , but in fact the timescale it takes in fact to clear that road in the mornings . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not just a temple to gold and glass but should turn our attention to daily life ’ |
| 9 | We are not just a temple to gold and glass , but should turn our attention to daily life in all its many aspects . |
| 10 | This means that presuppositions are not just a part of coming to believe but the heart of continuing to believe . |
| 11 | These changes are not just a matter of following technological devlopments , but reflect the way businesses are changing . |
| 12 | Social roles , therefore , are not just a matter of the way people can be observed to behave ( in the usual run of things ) but concern the way it is thought that people ought to behave . |
| 13 | ‘ It means that they 're beginning to realize that Free People are not just a bunch of dumb bomb-chuckers . ’ |
| 14 | The reason for this amount of detail is that DOG filters are not just a figment of the imagination , they are actually embodied in a class of retinal ganglion cells , the X-cells . |
| 15 | However , case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making . |
| 16 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 17 | Application forms are not just a routine procedure . |
| 18 | Standing in the dawnlit hall of Calatin 's house , Taliesin knew that for Fergus this had been not just a venture , a battle for the Fiana , but something much deeper . |
| 19 | THE trial of three businessmen accused of exporting arms-making equipment to Iraq turns out to have been not just a farce but a scandal . |
| 20 | I 've been in the family for generations , said the tray , so you can see that they 're not just a bunch of jumped-up farmers like so many around these days . |
| 21 | We 're not just a metropolis , as you see . ’ |
| 22 | We can find out far easier what is really required , and they can begin to realize that we 're not just a set of photographs at back of church with names underneath , that we 're actually person who are thinking of speaking . |
| 23 | The cartoon figure from the poster above the Women in Business desk screamed : ‘ I 'm not just a housewife , I am a saleable asset ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not just a monkey dancing to the organ-grinder 's tune . |
| 25 | This was to be not just a travel book but one which should be of use if , as seemed increasingly likely , we should be involved in hostilities with Italy : a circumstance which I nevertheless felt could , with diplomatic skill , be avoided . |
| 26 | The problem can be briefly stated as follows ; it was thought that for certiorari to be available there would have to be not just a determination affecting the rights of individuals , but also a superadded duty to act judicially . |
| 27 | He , Ben Lowe , would start the newspaper of the new dawn , the paper that would restore faith in the discredited medium , the paper that would be not just a paper , but far more . |
| 28 | Seldes marvellously captured the great down-town appeal of the movies when he spoke of the irresistible lure of ‘ the tinkle of a tinny piano playing a ragtime ’ which floated ‘ to the street from a darkened doorway ’ but the point about the movies was that they were not just a city or down-town phenomenon , they were everywhere . |
| 29 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 30 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |