Example sentences of "not 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And it 's not just personal customers who are footing the bill . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their learning strategies are not just personal responses , but partly predictable and rational responses to the situation in which they find themselves . |
| 11 | Exchange of witness statements is to be the norm in all actions , not just personal injury actions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tagsets produced ( i.e. the groups of words ) thereby contain not just syntactic but also semantic information . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 're not just flat decorated cakes , but 3D creations , almost sculptures and certainly works of art . |
| 16 | The problems surrounding the termination of the mentally handicapped are not just moral , but practical and medical . |
| 17 | He had also noticed that she was not just unhappy this time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it 's not just outdoor workers who 're being targetted . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the band are not just successful recording artists . |
| 24 | The mentality that produces such a procedure is not just unacceptable itself — as well as irksome to would-be candidates . |
| 25 | It was an amazing spectacle , a country not just unworried by but positively enjoying inflation . |
| 26 | Noble Metals is basing everything they do on ‘ not just satisfying but surprising and delighting our customers ’ . |
| 27 | Sweat is not just pure water , it also contains electrolytes and some protein . |
| 28 | But it is not just prospective parents who have contact with mentally handicapped people , and the attitudes of many people in positions of authority are crucial in that they will make decisions which will affect the lives of our mentally handicapped community . |
| 29 | If things are not just right , they have to go through that process all over again . |
| 30 | But it was not just long service that endeared him to Palace fans , for Billy was an enthusiastic player , full of pep and fight , with the ‘ never say die ’ attitude that supporters love to see . |