Example sentences of "not just [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is felt to testify , not just to a general rankness and decay , but to a conflagration of another kind — to what will happen if the political and racial tensions of the island can no longer be contained . |
| 2 | According to Albert Speer , Goebbels referred around this time not just to a ‘ leadership crisis ’ , but to a ‘ Leader crisis . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as costs are concerned , it is envisaged that traffic restraint strategies will finally be applied to all town quarters , not just to a selected elite . |
| 4 | We are born into a group , not just into a family , not just to an individual woman . |
| 5 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 6 | Because we ourselves are Italian we live and breathe Italy and all things Italian , we see places all the year round — not just during a brief flying visit which is all other operators can afford . |
| 7 | It means , according to , ‘ meeting the client , not just during a transaction but regularly to show an interest in the business and make the client comfortable , that while a lawyer is there primarily to earn a living he or she will act in the best interests of the business rather than in the best interests of the till . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is clear from the Hidden Report that BR is in desperate need not just of a new financial climate but a new managerial approach as well , ’ Mr Prescott said yesterday . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ What we have seen is the devaluation not just of a currency but of a Prime Minister and an entire Government . |
| 10 | The predictable ineffectiveness of the nationalist vote in Northern Ireland can be used to justify rejection not just of a particular government but of the whole constitutional structure which maintains the inclusion of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom rather than in a new all-Ireland state . |
| 11 | This would involve some acceptance by society of compensation to the chronic sick and disabled , not just of a responsibility to maintain them . |
| 12 | However , their multiple condensation at the level of the state makes it possible to speak , not just of a set of regional problems but of a general crisis of hegemony . |
| 13 | The only mechanism that people could think of that would produce such large quantities of energy seemed to be the gravitational collapse not just of a star but of a whole central region of a galaxy . |
| 14 | What is important is that your essay needs to be made up of logical or structural relations between points ( e.g. cause and effect , consequence , incompatibility , counter-example ) , not just of a list . |
| 15 | ‘ It is not just for a blow to be struck against Iraq when Saddam 's main victim has been innocent Iraqi people , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He discovered that all his desires were related to the need we all have for God himself — not just for a mother 's love or for some other intense childhood need . |
| 17 | That experience , providing free advice to the borough , started a desire to apply his knowledge to promoting the conservation of the environment generally , not just for a relative few previous buildings . |
| 18 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 19 | In my judgment therefore the equivalent of this principle today is the right of each family to home ownership , the need for more diffused and direct ownership of equity capital and the opportunity not just for a formal education but for retraining and post-experience training in later life . |
| 20 | ‘ The hospital is for patients , not just for a load of hangers-on . ’ |
| 21 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 22 | But they hope that then the troubles in Bosnia will be resolved and the youngsters will be able to escape thoughts of war , not just for a few days , but forever . |
| 23 | Until now , however , there has been no prize which has honoured our major creative writers not just for a single work but for the achievement of a lifetime . ’ |
| 24 | be developed by people who go to study childhood societies over the other side of the world and er you know , you stayed there , several months or a year or two , so it 's not just for a a brief visit . |
| 25 | Only this time they 're armed not just with a new album but new producers , new horizons , a new attitude and apparently a new code of conduct in interviews . |
| 26 | In other words , and this again has been emphasised in more recent feminist theory , we are dealing not just with a ( constructed ) difference , but with a hierarchy . |
| 27 | For example , special needs teachers increasingly are working alongside their colleagues in ordinary classrooms , not just with a small group of children with special needs but also with all children . |
| 28 | Capital therefore provides us not just with a view of the economy , but with a way of analysing the structure and development of a whole society . |
| 29 | He must be educated with professional expertise , not just in a specialist discipline but with a general knowledge of the disciplines which bear on management , to allow communication with other contributors to the industrial activity of the company or organisation . |
| 30 | Rather than fall back on an increased emphasis upon managerialism based upon hierarchy and control , the Education Reform Acts should be regarded as an opportunity to review , not just in a coping way but in a maximising way , the management structures and processes of our schools . |