Example sentences of "is [not/n't] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like to think that he would have accepted that art is work , that the work that frees us , and is not just ‘ punishment ’ , is art , and that anyone who uses his imagination is an artist . |
| 2 | Punctuality is not just a drama school fetish , it 's preparation for a profession where time really does cost money . |
| 3 | The dignity of the State will be enhanced , and with religion as its guide , there will never be a rule that is not just … ’ ( 1930 : 64 ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But life is not just work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , it is not just beginners who make mistakes and get caught out . |
| 8 | Good health is not just about providing efficient , high quality medical services . |
| 9 | If you smoke when you 're pregnant , it is not just your own health you are damaging . |
| 10 | And exercise is not just a matter of jogging or sport — it can mean other enjoyable activities like dancing , swimming and walking . |
| 11 | But it is not just how the new consciousness is to be used which produces problems in handling this new-found wisdom ; it is the very acquisition of knowledge itself which makes the concept of self so dynamic . |
| 12 | In so doing , they claim that it is not just secondary qualities that are confined to the mind , but , with them , the whole vivid force of the world-as-we-perceive-it , - what some philosophers call the manifest image of the world — which is intrinsically bound up with the secondary qualities . |
| 13 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 14 | Without the possibility , then , of altering one 's perceptual inputs at will it is difficult to see how the information provided by the input systems could ever be centered upon a self , a self that is not just a repository of information , but something which addresses itself to reality and for whom reality is centred upon itself . |
| 15 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 16 | Dostoevsky 's groping backwards past Crime and Punishment towards Notes from Underground is not just a matter of arriving at Stavrogin . |
| 17 | But in this respect , at least , English in the English academy , as Leavis liked to emphasize , is not just another subject . |
| 18 | It is not just overseas graduate students who have problems . |
| 19 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 20 | What he denies is not just veteris vestigia flammae but what Racine makes his Phèdre say , in appalled awareness of her own condition : C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée . |
| 21 | Yet it is not just his commitments with the Royal Ballet that hold him up , it is also his unusually intense way of making a work . |
| 22 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not just the lack of manners which appalls us , but the sheer bad timing . |
| 24 | There are developers for whom a building is not just another source of profit and who want to be good patrons . |
| 25 | Le Monde is not just a newspaper but an institution . |
| 26 | And the weakness of these works is not just that Hall can not integrate ‘ arty ’ steps into jazz without them looking like destitute cliches , it is that his dancers are not adequately trained to look comfortable in mainstream styles . |
| 27 | No respite for leftist cows IT IS not just the peasants who are revolting in Romania — the few remaining kulaks are also playing up . |
| 28 | We are saved through the loving obedience of Jesus which is not just a mental state but is expressed and only could be expressed in bodily pain and death . |
| 29 | It is not just a matter of the tens of thousands who have streamed out of the country in recent weeks , via Budapest , Prague and Warsaw . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not just statistics that are involved , it is also research and information generally , ’ he said . |