Example sentences of "[not/n't] just the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally auctions contain items so interesting that critics in newspapers comment on their quality , not just the prices they might fetch . |
| 2 | This gives a lighter , cleaner taste which does n't overpower and illustrates the fact that it is not just the obvious oily herring , mackerel and salmon which have the body to withstand a mustard onslaught . |
| 3 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |
| 4 | It 's not just the medical attention that 's first class either ; there 's a gym , so you wo n't give up your exercise routine will you , darling ? |
| 5 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 6 | And recall Kafka on incidental madness in Dostoevsky ; it 's not just the children whom Svidrigailov terrifies . ) |
| 7 | ‘ It is not just the lack of manners which appalls us , but the sheer bad timing . |
| 8 | No respite for leftist cows IT IS not just the peasants who are revolting in Romania — the few remaining kulaks are also playing up . |
| 9 | The new monthly payment will accommodate not just the backlog but also the new , expensive rates . |
| 10 | The result is a genuine triumph , thanks to a troupe of singers , the same cast as at York , willing to give their best in attitudes ranging from completely recumbent to perilous perching on ladder or chaise-longue ; dragging themselves around on all fours and wrapping themselves in curtains ; and generally behaving as though the entire cast ( not just the noble lovers , as in the script ) is ripe for the psychiatrist 's couch . |
| 11 | At present , compensation is paid on the assumption that all the flock is infected — 39p per bird — and not just the birds removed for testing . |
| 12 | It is not just the situation of the accounting which is important in stories of this sort , for , although the telling of exciting stories is often used to enliven boring work , the moral of these particular action stories is crucial to their accounting . |
| 13 | In the case of the famine of 1921–2 , a sudden alteration in the agricultural setting deeply affected , not just the local peasantry , but all the other provinces of European Russia and the very basis of the economic and political calculations that had led to the introduction of the NEP in the first place . |
| 14 | But it was not just the short-lived weather which sent spirits soaring . |
| 15 | The other , more disturbing reading is that the Shakespearian phrases are made appropriate because the present situation reinterprets them in such a way that we are forced to wonder if a Burbank-Volupine situation was not just the sort of thing they were talking about all along . |
| 16 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 17 | His falsity and hollowness are not just the opposite of the true and the wholesome , but threaten to undermine it . |
| 18 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 19 | Not just The Pistols but others , like Mick Jones — who formed The Clash — and Tony James — who started Generation X. |
| 20 | In other words , to a degree the burden of Germany on the balance of payments was in part the result of Britain 's ‘ great power ’ posture , and not just the consequence of the military pattern that emerged in the conquest of Germany . |
| 21 | The second reason for taking the ‘ non-party ’ claim seriously is that the various Leagues — and not just the three studied by Coetzee — were frequently critical of the Conservative party and expressed strong reservations about the effectiveness of the Conservatives as a political force . |
| 22 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 23 | Kahlo 's naked body becomes not just the tortured self of her personal biography but a visual counterpart to the injured and defiled manifestations of Mexico 's colonised past : La Llorona ‘ the weeping woman ’ of popular myth and La Chingada , the raped and abused mother described in Paz 's The Labyrinth of Solitude . |
| 24 | But it is not just the strong smells of food , but the metaphorical smells of corruption and moral and social decay which are suggested by the inclusion of such items in his work . |
| 25 | Of course , it was not just the atheists who disliked him . |
| 26 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 27 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 28 | It was not just the inner cities . |
| 29 | No male member of the Royal family had ever been directly involved with the hospital before , but she feels strongly that when children are in hospital it is the parents ' problem , not just the mother 's , and so the request was specifically for them both to be patrons . |
| 30 | Beauty for boys is a growing business — it 's not just the girls who enjoy pampering themselves . |