Example sentences of "[vb base] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those responsible are interested in an effective total process not just an effective interview and all the stages in the process interact . |
| 2 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 3 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 4 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 5 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 6 | for anything , I mean not just |
| 7 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 8 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 9 | In other words , you concentrate not just on what 's repressed in id , but on the structure of the ego as well , and the superego , and the course of nature part of it comes out in the book as told us that Woodrow Wilson had a tremendous superego in the form of his identification with his father , who he further identified with God , I mean , if I come over very critical indeed , and therefore , his own ego was identified with Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 12 | In that partnerships depend not just on technical or logistical arrangements but also personal commitment for their success they may be thought to resemble matrimony . |
| 13 | This contains a wide selection of accessible articles which span not just the decline of manufacturing but also the geography of the growth of new manufacturing sectors and of services . |
| 14 | So , the photo-sensitive cells lining it receive not just an impression of light or darkness , but a crude image of the scene . |
| 15 | Gill-nets are also generally much less selective than most other fishing methods , and often catch not just marine mammals but many other non-target fish species . |
| 16 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 17 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 18 | The result of this decision necessitates that tribunals look not just at the nature of the offence but also at the severity or leniency of the punishment . |
| 19 | The short-lived benefits from the 1967 devaluation and the persistence of poor economic performance after the floating of sterling in 1972 , demonstrate not just the limited effect of devaluation but rather suggest that exchange rate difficulties are symptomatic of more fundamental problems [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 20 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 21 | Were they , you know in , general you know not just talking about riveters , but in general for the the work the workforce ? |
| 22 | With the assistance that is increasingly forthcoming from ordinary members of both sides of the community , they will resolutely and successfully pursue not just those who carry out terrorist attacks but also those who plan them . |
| 23 | Lining the walls of the display hall are a long series of photographs and displays which trace not just the history of Yakovlev but the whole history of Soviet aviation , both civil and military , from the very earliest days right up to date and covering significant events through the years . |
| 24 | I mean slap not just sideways with his hand and then he 'd give you the strap after that . |
| 25 | But this revival of national awareness is happening I believe not just in Germany . |
| 26 | The ego , which itself develops out of the id , excludes certain impressions and processes as a defensive process , which become not just preconscious , and therefore capable of being remembered easily , but repressed into the id , where powerful emotional factors keep them forgotten . |
| 27 | You go not just for the rides ( one of the most popular , Earthquake , puts you in San Francisco just as the Big One hits ) but for the chance to see how filmmakers , animators and special effects wizards all conspire to create the magic of film . |
| 28 | The Minister should tell the House that he is prepared to go to the Treasury and argue not just for increases that provide price protection , but that he will start to look at the experience of those in the bottom two fifths of the pensioner population and make arrangements to do something significantly better for them . |
| 29 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 30 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |