Example sentences of "not just [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , she did , but not just to live with someone , as was the vogue . |
| 2 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 3 | The secret is not just to talk to them when you are trying to sell something . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not just to do with surface . |
| 5 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |
| 6 | The Holy Spirit is God 's gift to us , and he means us not just to read about him but to make use of him . |
| 7 | In particular , in this type of assessment it is important not just to think in terms of incremental cash flows above those currently being received , but also to bear in mind what the problems will be if no investment is undertaken . |
| 8 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 9 | I 've come to walk with Beefy — not just to prove to myself that I can , but to bring this terrible disease out in the open . |
| 10 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 11 | Which is why all the products in the range are carefully formulated , not just to work in isolation but to work together as a complete programme — repairing , cleansing , caring and styling . |
| 12 | I need time and space not just to get over the appalling things which have happened to me in which you do not seem to show much interest but also to think through where the two of us are at . |