Example sentences of "[verb] not just [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 2 | The crisis occurred not just in the old industries such as steel and shipbuilding but in artificial fibres , electrical goods and , par excellence , motor manufacture . |
| 3 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 4 | It came not just from the outside world , but also from their friends ( notably the Greeks ) , their allies ( the Serbs of Serbia ) , and even their leader ( Radovan Karadzic ) . |
| 5 | We should look not just at the actual drug taking itself , but also at what makes people want to take drugs . ’ |
| 6 | I feel that this is reflected not just in the increased knowledge of the students but also in a change of attitude and a few greater degrees of empathy . ’ |
| 7 | He would be defended not just by the best lawyers in Egypt but probably by the best lawyers in France . |
| 8 | This applies not just to the technical side , but also to information policies ’ . |
| 9 | The latter is certainly played with great energy although even such a generally obvious piece such as this would have benefitted from heightened sensitivity : Gershwin was , after all , influenced not just by the vibrant colours of the tropics but by their warmth as well . |
| 10 | It represented his growing recognition that social change is created not just through the inevitable and impersonal workings of capitalist societies , but by the experience , understanding ( and hence the demands ) gained by people in their everyday lives in the limited spatial context of their localities . |
| 11 | Form is made perceptible against a background of existing literary form , and the function of a device is determined not just by the structural hierarchy of a particular work , but by its place in the literary system as a whole . |
| 12 | The consumer boom was fuelled not just by the falling savings ratio at a time when economic growth allowed incomes to rise strongly , but also by ( a ) tax cuts , especially in the budgets of 1987 and 1988 and ( b ) readily available credit — particularly in the aftermath of the deregulation of the City in 1986 , known as Big Bang . |
| 13 | In the case of Monetary Union , the situation arises not just from the special treatment accorded to the UK and Denmark , but also from the fact that it was appreciated that not all Member States would meet the rather strict criteria for economic convergence laid down as the precondition for participation in the monetary union ; such States are referred to as ‘ Member States with a derogation ’ , and would , inter alia , be excluded from the decision-making process on certain matters . |