Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [not/n't] just as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school ‘ plant ’ began to be seen not just as a resource which could be used for adult education or the occasional PTA dance and parents ' meeting . |
| 2 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 3 | The sexy singer believes she will be remembered not just as a pop queen but as a goddess figure — ‘ like Boadicea ’ . |
| 4 | It will be argued here that the above-noted tendency of the infinitival construction to imply greater subjectivity and possibility of doubt indicates that know is being evoked not just as the state of " being aware of a fact " in these uses but also as the condition for being able to attribute to the direct object of know the event denoted by the infinitive . |
| 5 | The book 's intended not just as a guide for visitors , but as a chance for locals to get a fresh look at familiar sights . |
| 6 | The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ? |
| 7 | But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment , but to protect society . |
| 8 | This stage is reached not just as a result of the increasing complexity of the productive technology , in this case the development of agriculture , but because agriculture implies a growth in population density , an intensification of social intercourse , and an increased division of labour . |