Example sentences of "not just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punctuality is not just a drama school fetish , it 's preparation for a profession where time really does cost money . |
| 2 | Not just a delay in glass , he wrote , but glass as mirror of delay . |
| 3 | And exercise is not just a matter of jogging or sport — it can mean other enjoyable activities like dancing , swimming and walking . |
| 4 | This is not just a point I am making in passing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky 's groping backwards past Crime and Punishment towards Notes from Underground is not just a matter of arriving at Stavrogin . |
| 7 | The consummate silliness of Beerbohm 's sneer , quite apart from showing just how brittle and thin was that famous ‘ wit ’ of his , has alas a representative significance also , as we see when we put beside it Maurice Bowra , another famous ‘ wit ’ , saying of Pound that he was , not just a bore , but an American bore' . |
| 8 | Supporting the leadership , Garfield Davies , general secretary of the shop workers ' union Usdaw , said delegates should not forget the objective was to create a nuclear-free world , not just a nuclear-free Britain . |
| 9 | Le Monde is not just a newspaper but an institution . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not just a monkey dancing to the organ-grinder 's tune . |
| 11 | The concern , though , was always with where the music was going and which of its layers were propelling it , so that the occasional sudden stillnesses became a real opening-up of another dimension in the music 's workings and vision , not just a refuelling stop for the orchestra . |
| 12 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is , however , not just a little local difficulty . |
| 16 | Reform is not just a sensible course which could , with some pain , lead to a better life for everyone , as in Hungary . |
| 17 | RETIRING abroad is not just a fantasy but a reality for an increasing proportion of the population . |
| 18 | This is an example of what Cain ( 1973 ) calls the ‘ instructional attitude ’ which senior constables adopt in relation to probationers , passing on not just a knowledge of law but of the situations in which to apply it . |
| 19 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 20 | In this respect Fforde believes that individualism was not just a particular strand of the Conservative tradition , but was the Conservative tradition , and that ‘ Tory Centrism , anti-capitalism , or paternalist interventionism ’ are ‘ phantoms of the historiographical imagination ’ . |
| 21 | Graham was not just a kind elderly man , he was a passionate and knowledgeable gardener . |
| 22 | Probably I would be more convinced that Tromsø , with its snug wooden houses , its thick air-spaced double glazing , its heating systems , its hot water from the tap , its colour televisions and supermarkets , was not just a retreat from reality . |
| 23 | There is a rigid hierarchy but it is not just a sexual hierarchy . |
| 24 | It was not just a matter of handling gate-money and paying the players . |
| 25 | It was not just a question of climate as the British sometimes liked to think . |
| 26 | In Glasgow fighting between fans was not just a matter for juveniles . |
| 27 | ( In fact , there is carbohydrate craving , so it is not just a matter of apathy about cooking . ) |
| 28 | Mission accomplished , we head for home , though it 's not just a case of turntail and run as fast as we can . |
| 29 | What we also notice in the chapters dealing with the Fall , and in particular with Adam and Eve , is that this is not just a book by a scholar in a library . |
| 30 | Not just a prickly face |