Example sentences of "do not just [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion .
2 I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures .
3 However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) .
4 This did not just happen by itself .
5 Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 .
6 Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits .
7 Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame .
8 As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos .
9 The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines .
10 Expectations of changes in the exchange rate do not just depend on current domestic interest rates .
11 Do not just go to the solicitor who did you conveyancing , or walk into your nearest solicitor 's firm on the high street .
12 Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose .
13 ‘ But you do not just march into a druggist 's and demand atropine , ’ objected Auguste .
14 The provision and s740 do not just apply to cases where there is a transfer of an asset from the United Kingdom to a place outside the United Kingdom .
15 Italian researchers have shown that Octopuses do not just learn by experience , and by copying other Octopi , but are actively instructed by those who have already learnt the lesson .
16 What this spirit brought was a confidence that problems can be solved , and do not just have to be lived with .
17 Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual .
18 More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people .
19 It does not just refer to ‘ sharp business practices ’ and people making slightly greater profits than they should .
20 The one-flesh nature of the relationship does not just refer to the sexuality of marriage ; although sexuality in marriage is both an expression and symbol of that oneness .
21 It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number .
22 Local involvement in nation-wide politics does not just depend on intellectual evolution , however , but on the strong conviction that national affairs affect one 's life and so need to be considered .
23 The well-organised firm does not just look at last year and add ten per cent .
24 Here , however , the clause does not just apply to one disposition , but confirms all the dispositions in the will .
25 The emphasis in the French version does not just come from the repetition of je l'aimais bien , which also occurs in the original , but rather from the fact that the repetition is labelled as repetition : elle répéta .
26 Here the secondary process does not just operate through discourse , but is structured like discourse , while the primary process does not only discharge energy through the use of perceptual memories , but is structured like a ‘ perceptual field ’ .
27 Archaeology does not just deal with buried evidence , but also with sites and objects of all kinds ; the study of buildings is considered equally important .
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