Example sentences of "not just [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick , on the other hand , Ludens noticed , proceeded in the opposite direction , occasionally speaking as if he had been , when Marcus arrived , not just dying but actually dead . |
| 2 | For Eliot in 1923 all primitive or savage art contained comic and tragic elements , comedy and tragedy being not just late but maybe also ‘ impermanent intellectual abstractions ’ . |
| 3 | The tagsets produced ( i.e. the groups of words ) thereby contain not just syntactic but also semantic information . |
| 4 | Noble Metals is basing everything they do on ‘ not just satisfying but surprising and delighting our customers ’ . |
| 5 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 6 | In my attempt at a wide-angled overview , however , I shall argue that the camera has not just two but many sides , and that feminist film criticism and theory can only benefit from casting its eye outside a field of vision in which the theory of the gaze and questions of representation and power have been dominant for too long . |
| 7 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 8 | ST CECILIA 'S DAY this year has prompted not just one but two brand new recordings of Purcell 's delightful Ode for celebrating that day in 1683 , Welcome To All The Pleasures , while earlier this year there was yet a third . |
| 9 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 10 | The first option is the more likely , since it appears that it is not just one but several dispositions which are at issue . |
| 11 | It is important to stress that in the UK there is not just one but a very large number of overlapping labour markets . |
| 12 | • Scotland 's Sunday Mail managed to satisfy quite a few fishkeepers ' preoccupations by combining beer and fish in not just one but two stories . |
| 13 | In the Soviet view , pre-war developments pointed unmistakably towards not just one but two revolutions . |
| 14 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 15 | The man was worse than she 'd thought , not just egocentric but mad , to boot . |
| 16 | The sapiential authority to advise , instruct and direct ; the moral authority that makes its acceptance not just useful but obligatory ; and its charismatic authority that allows the professional to appeal to some supreme interest of his client that not only outranks conscience but sometimes even the raison d'état ( 1977 , pp.17–18 , emphasis added ; see also 1975 ) . |
| 17 | It is the refusal to accept an excuse that the recession is biting hard — clients need to buy to comply with the law , and most importantly to show their competitors that they are not just surviving but thriving . |
| 18 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 19 | Not just polite but really welcoming and helpful . |
| 20 | If accompanied by an intention to cause death it 's not just criminal but murder . ’ |
| 21 | Another collection , edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka , Discovering Reality ( 1983 ) , a wide-ranging and challenging selection of essays in epistemology , metaphysics , methodology and philosophy of science , argues that it is not just content but also methodological assumptions and epistemology which show male bias . |
| 22 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 23 | In his plates for John Gould 's bird books the character of the bird comes through , so that the birds of prey are not just accurate but menacing . |
| 24 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 25 | To promise £35 billion-worth of extras and then to renationalise these concerns — as has been said , it might cost as much as £10 billion — is not just absurd but highly irresponsible . |
| 26 | Left as they were , they were not just incompetent but dangerous . |
| 27 | In East Germany the party has been forced to hold ‘ round table ’ talks with the opposition groups , and to concede free elections not just sometime but next May . |
| 28 | ( An existing Directive already bans television advertising , and a proposal supported by the UK Government and currently in course of approval will ban not just advertising but production and marketing of oral moist snuff — Skoal Bandits and the like . ) |
| 29 | The challenge is to help create a climate within which it is not just acceptable but normal for teachers to talk openly about their feelings , their perceptions , their misgivings , their ideals and their experiments , whether large or small , successful or unsuccessful . |
| 30 | They are connected to the rest mass through the relation given in Section 1.3 : This intimate connection of mass , energy and momentum suggests that a general law of gravitation will contain not just mass but energy and momentum as well . |