Example sentences of "it be [not/n't] just [that] " in BNC.

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31 He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves .
32 It is not just that the sufferer loses friends from the disordered behaviour .
33 Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is .
34 It is not just that there is no reality , but that man has no direct way of making contact with it .
35 It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green .
36 However , it is n't just that their perceptions and responses are affected by their beliefs .
37 It is n't just that the repertory is far-removed from that of the harp 's romantic territory — and , to the best of my recollection , of a kind last explored ( more conservatively and on a modern instrument ) in an entire disc by Zabaleta ( Archiv ) over 20 years ago , nor that it is played on two pedal-less early harps , it 's the spirit with and in which it is executed .
38 It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair .
39 It was n't just that Major appeared to have accepted a dare to go through an entire broadcast without offering a single specific incentive of any kind for people to vote for him , but Brunson , an experienced broadcaster , was even odder .
40 It was n't just that Nottingham 's studious fullback landed seven goals from his solitary World Cup appearance , against the American Eagles at Twickenham last October .
41 It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most …
42 It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention .
43 It was n't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening .
44 It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space .
45 It was n't just that their possessions , wood and porcelain , paint and linen , symbolised their joint life .
46 It was n't just that she was strikingly beautiful ; there was an unworldly air about her .
47 It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story .
48 It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been .
49 It was n't just that he was pitching it lower .
50 It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication .
51 It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ .
52 It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy .
53 It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity .
54 It was not just that he was unversed in Washington mores ; he was also a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense .
55 It was not just that the Old King possessed the greater resources — which he did -he was also able to overwhelm his enemies by sheer speed of movement .
56 As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry .
57 It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust .
58 It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good .
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