Example sentences of "[not/n't] just an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your bones , your eyes , your hair , your teeth are all going to be scrutinised by a panel of judges who are looking for your all-round potential , not just an impressive academic display . |
| 2 | This form of political violence requires political answers and not just an anti-criminal , police-oriented , coercive response . |
| 3 | As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built . |
| 4 | Not just an incomprehensible episode , but a meaningless present . |
| 5 | After all , Mrs Thatcher was also a supreme politician , not just an evangelist . |
| 6 | Cinema was not just an entertainment for our generation . |
| 7 | But Gallop had doubts , or rather confesses an ambivalence : ‘ But we can not be sure that this radical notion of ‘ heterosexuality' ’ is not just an alibi for the comforting norm' ( pp. 127 — 8 ) . |
| 8 | Marx 's exposition of capitalism was not just an attempt to show its nature and its temporary character , it also showed how capitalism has an inner dynamic which brings about its development , its fruition , and ultimately its destruction . |
| 9 | This is not just an academic concern but part of the work of understanding how and when capitalism will change and be overcome . |
| 10 | For the early Church , however , water was not just an image , but a dramatic and essential element in the blessing that God was going to give . |
| 11 | As with every other technological innovation , they may attempt to protect their ‘ inventions ’ which means after altering the genes , they could slap a patent on it , making it possible to own not just an idea and a technique , but the matrix of a living animal . |
| 12 | She is not just an experiment , but a lively and very likeable young woman . |
| 13 | The inner analogue is not just an interpretation of experience , it is a re-presentation of experience itself . |
| 14 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 15 | This was not just an effect of small scale distribution , but perhaps particularly due to their explicit problematisation of realism and of the conventional pleasures of cinema-viewing within the film text . |
| 16 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 17 | Of all JTR 's contemporary Brother Brushes the one that has stood the test of time in not just an historical context is William McTaggart . |
| 18 | And this is not just an a priori supposition but finds support in the texts . |
| 19 | ‘ SCIENCE is something that people do … not just an abstract set of laws . ’ |
| 20 | It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children . |
| 21 | This is never easy , and she will only respond if she feels that your suggestions spring from real affection and concern for her and are not just an attempt to dominate or to ‘ bully ’ her into a new regime . |
| 22 | He thus became , not just an enemy , but that infinitely more disturbing thing , what they could not but acknowledge to be a rival for the allegiance of the people of India . |
| 23 | It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives . |
| 24 | Privacy is not just an important legal tradition — it is also a good crime deterrent . |
| 25 | NOT JUST AN AUXILIARY |
| 26 | This was not just an old man 's hatred of change ; the sonnet Steamboats , Viaducts , and Railways ( 1833 ) is surprisingly in favour of these evidences of man 's ability , and concludes : |
| 27 | Naturopathy is one of the oldest forms of medicine and is based on four principles : the individuality of the patient , that you should treat the cause of the condition and not just the symptoms , that the body retains the ability to heal itself and that you must treat the whole person and not just an affected area . |
| 28 | It is important , as Christians , to link modernisms with our lifestyles and economic systems , because the crisis of modernity is not just an isolated problem of wrong philosophies or false doctrines , it is also a crisis of wrongdoing and crass social values . |
| 29 | The French in the press box , for whom Prost is not just an idol but their feed-bag , are on the edge of their seats watching the monitors as they show Niki closing in on Nigel . |
| 30 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |