Example sentences of "not just any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from mimicking the Statue of Liberty , the new statue holds a gun — not just any gun but an AK-47 , the weapon used by the army to blast its way into Peking . |
| 2 | And not just any republic . |
| 3 | A university is a place where there is research , teaching and learning ; but not just any research , any teaching and any learning . |
| 4 | ‘ Not just any shit , but the turds laid by — ’ He twirls the stick again and then points at someone I never seen before . |
| 5 | Not just any seed , mind . |
| 6 | He is a judge — and , as it turns out , not just any judge , but the judge who once sentenced Miss Madrigal to death . |
| 7 | Mind you it was not just any soccer pitch . |
| 8 | One day , in 1958 , it was Nicholson 's turn — and he had an acting job at last , and not just any part , but the lead in a new film . |
| 9 | Of course , not just any old fart can write in with ‘ please sir , some stickers please ’ and hope to get anything printed — we need good solid letter writing about anything you feel like in the skateboard world . |
| 10 | And not just any smile . |
| 11 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 12 | But then Tim Robbins is not just any old movie star . |
| 13 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 14 | ‘ Minch is not just any eagle , she is an eagle of Callanish where the greatest of our kind come from . |
| 15 | Beginning with education , there is general agreement that it is not just any kind of education which will encourage economic growth . |
| 16 | And not just any soldiers . |
| 17 | And a T'ang is not just any man . |
| 18 | But it was not just any dragon : this dragon had a man 's face ; the thin , sallow face of a Hung Mao , the eyes intensely blue , the mouth thin-lipped and almost sneering . |
| 19 | And not just any outcome . |
| 20 | Not just any old intake , mind . |
| 21 | Not just any portrait painter , either , but one who might possibly end up as part of the family and on whom it was therefore important to make a good impression . |
| 22 | ‘ Not just any keys mind , ’ Rain cautioned , and stressed the value of the desk keys . |
| 23 | Not just any DNA , but DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds . |
| 24 | Not just any large hospital either , but Coronation , the place where she had trained and worked for almost five years . |
| 25 | In terms of speed , we found , using the parallel cabling ( and it 's a special cable , so not just any old parallel cable will do ) that response from server to client was as quick as using a native drive . |
| 26 | Not just any water treatment plant but 12 beds of fermenting sewage , each ½ kilometre long . |
| 27 | Mr Hellyer was not just any adult . |
| 28 | And not just any old envelope , but a special luxury brand with a griffin watermark . |
| 29 | Not just any point on one plane , but any point in the entire nine-dimensional hypervolume . |
| 30 | If the speaker made a " mistake " in uttering gone rather than " vanished " , then it was not just any " mistake " . |