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

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1 At his accession , James was not just powerful , but also popular .
2 The knowledge is not just dry pages of fact after fact , but knowledge gained from analysing your first-hand experience .
3 Patrick , on the other hand , Ludens noticed , proceeded in the opposite direction , occasionally speaking as if he had been , when Marcus arrived , not just dying but actually dead .
4 Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) .
5 Under war conditions , pacifist socialists were forced to rethink their attitude to the state , if only because many of them — not just conscientious objectors — suffered state repression .
6 A lifetime of commitment though required not just higher rewards or the promise of permanent employment , but also some limitation on the ease with which labour could move to other employers .
7 For Eliot in 1923 all primitive or savage art contained comic and tragic elements , comedy and tragedy being not just late but maybe also ‘ impermanent intellectual abstractions ’ .
8 From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built .
9 And it 's not just personal customers who are footing the bill .
10 Coalition building , therefore , provides not just personal or political advantage ; it is also an important process for making sure that the ideas that do get developed have merit and broad support .
11 Their learning strategies are not just personal responses , but partly predictable and rational responses to the situation in which they find themselves .
12 Exchange of witness statements is to be the norm in all actions , not just personal injury actions .
13 As contacts came to comprise not just diplomatic intercourse , but a whole range of economic , military , social and cultural interests , the scope for both friendship and conflict became greater .
14 The tagsets produced ( i.e. the groups of words ) thereby contain not just syntactic but also semantic information .
15 To cap it all , the administration has been shown to be not just partisan , not just radical in some of its instincts , but alarmingly accident-prone .
16 They 're not just flat decorated cakes , but 3D creations , almost sculptures and certainly works of art .
17 The problems surrounding the termination of the mentally handicapped are not just moral , but practical and medical .
18 He had also noticed that she was not just unhappy this time .
19 Five X plus two Y not just five x two Y.
20 a moment or two to answer a question not just five seconds
21 The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it .
22 Several concessions have also been made in relation to capital gains tax : the amount of gain allowed tax free has risen from £1,000 a year to £5,000 a year and this allowance now applies to all gains , not just small gains as was formerly the case .
23 But what I 'll try and ask you to do is your service level is not just four nights four noons four despatch you know it 's not just that .
24 But it 's not just outdoor workers who 're being targetted .
25 These are not just fizzy lager joints , but environments where a bank of six beer engines can sit happily on the bar counter offering a wide selection of real ales .
26 Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount .
27 But the band are not just successful recording artists .
28 The mentality that produces such a procedure is not just unacceptable itself — as well as irksome to would-be candidates .
29 It was an amazing spectacle , a country not just unworried by but positively enjoying inflation .
30 Noble Metals is basing everything they do on ‘ not just satisfying but surprising and delighting our customers ’ .
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