Example sentences of "were [not/n't] just the " in BNC.

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1 The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition .
2 They also began to suggest strongly that leys were not just the traders ' tracks that Watkins proposed but were closely associated with such earth energy if not actually marking the channels along which such energy might flow .
3 His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport .
4 Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you .
5 Russians , the ‘ elder brother ’ of the Slavic as well as of the other Soviet peoples , were not just the most numerous but also the dominant national grouping in the USSR as a whole .
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