Example sentences of "not just one [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first option is the more likely , since it appears that it is not just one but several dispositions which are at issue . |
| 5 | It is important to stress that in the UK there is not just one but a very large number of overlapping labour markets . |
| 6 | • Scotland 's Sunday Mail managed to satisfy quite a few fishkeepers ' preoccupations by combining beer and fish in not just one but two stories . |
| 7 | In the Soviet view , pre-war developments pointed unmistakably towards not just one but two revolutions . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Down Lord Street , they 'd have big hose-pipes out — not just one or two men but big gangs of men . |
| 10 | ‘ He must get his chance to show what he can do — and he must get it over a number of games , not just one or two like he did against Leeds and Manchester United . ’ |
| 11 | The sloths , arboreal herbivores with stomachs and digestive systems showing convergence with ruminants , at least the two-toed ( Choloepus hoffmani ) and three-toed ( Bradypus infuscatus ) on Barro Colorado Island , feed on at least 31 species , not just one or two as was long-believed , and it is estimated that they consume about 14.7 g dry weight of leaves each day in the case of the three-toed sloth , a cropping-rate of 5.1 g of leaf per kg of sloth per day , whereas howler monkeys crop at seven times this rate . |
| 12 | It 's either broke down or it 's been an accident because there 's three cars there not just one or two . |
| 13 | I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with . |