Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [conj] " 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 | ‘ It 's not just that the objectives have been achieved , of getting the policy reviews endorsed , and conducting ourselves in a way that will attract the British people . |
| 11 | It is not just that dealing with Old Age Pensioners who have reported missing budgies falls outside the definition of what counts as ‘ real ’ police work , the work is also disliked because it is problematic , for policemen need to display competence in the way they convey sympathy while admitting that nothing will be done . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 16 | It is not just that many of the old structures of central planning have been demolished , or that much of the government is now in the hands of people who still refer to themselves quite unselfconsciously as ‘ the opposition ’ . |
| 17 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 18 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 19 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 20 | So specifiers will need to know not just that a tile meets EC requirements , but — crucially in northern Europe — in what way it meets those requirements . |
| 21 | It is not just that a ‘ market ’ approach to the administration of services dehumanizes people and makes doubtful assumptions about the way organizations actually work . |
| 22 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 23 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 24 | I believe the reason is not just that the statement is more dramatic but the nature of the drama . |
| 25 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 26 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 27 | It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues . |
| 28 | David Noble ( 1977 ) takes this argument a stage further and argues not just that the use , but also the design , of the CNC machine tool has been influenced by these management control considerations . |
| 29 | The alternative will be not just that the situation is a mess but that perfectly respectable stores will continue to be forced to break a stupid and outdated law . |
| 30 | It is not just that one supplements the Other : . |