Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just while we 're still hopelessly in love with each other , but after that , too . |
| 2 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | The problem is often not just whether it is genuine or fake , but rather how much is original , and what has subsequently been done to the object , when , by whom and why . |
| 4 | However , the test of what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ as opposed to ‘ practicable ’ , is not just whether the measures taken are financially or physically possible but the degree of risk must be balanced against the sacrifice involved . |
| 5 | In the Soviet Union as elsewhere , what matters is how well people manage their dilemmas and not just whether they solve them . |
| 6 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 7 | And Peper Peter had to accept it not just once you know and then he was a changed man . |
| 8 | Microsoft must foresee where the market is going , where and how to direct its effort — and do so better not just than lively young rivals eager to up-end it like IBM , but than powerful companies moving in from outside the industry . |
| 9 | At least , not just before he goes to sleep . ’ |
| 10 | over an eighteen , but not just cos of that . |
| 11 | But not just cos of that . |
| 12 | D' ya no I 'm not just cos I I said it 's a waste of tape . |
| 13 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 14 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 15 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |
| 16 | This stage is reached not just as a result of the increasing complexity of the productive technology , in this case the development of agriculture , but because agriculture implies a growth in population density , an intensification of social intercourse , and an increased division of labour . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 19 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 20 | I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window . |
| 21 | She was aware of her now , not just as a daft , cantankerous old woman but as someone like herself , fearful and isolated . |
| 22 | Later , I reflected that the Tudors came to Ireland not just as rulers , but as missionaries-by-force , in Islamic style , determined to change the people 's religion . |
| 23 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 24 | He argues that this activity should be seen , not just as an expression of poverty , but as a cause of it . |
| 25 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 26 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 27 | In particular , teachers will somehow have to be ‘ managed ’ to participate in change , not just as foot soldiers obedient to curriculum manager ‘ officers ’ , but as genuine participant professionals . |
| 28 | Billy Callender , Palace 's regular goalkeeper from 1926–32 , was thought by some of his contemporaries to have sufficient skill and character to follow his illustrious predecessor , Jack Alderson , not just as the Crystal Palace custodian but also the full England International Side itself . |
| 29 | To do this , education has to be seen as a continuing life process linked to social and economic activity at all points and not just as a precursor to employment and a dependent adjunct thereafter . |
| 30 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |