Example sentences of "[noun] not just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for a number of reasons not just one . |
| 2 | Previous criteria used to test whether mineral developments should be permitted in these special areas applied to all proposals not just those deemed ‘ major development ’ . |
| 3 | Previous criteria used to test whether mineral developments should be permitted in these special areas applied to all proposals not just those deemed ‘ major development ’ . |
| 4 | In an age when even the most liberal of Mughal Emperors used to demolish Hindu temples , this was both a brave and novel work ; but some considered Dara 's views not just unusual but actually heretical . |
| 5 | Others see the Jacobites as a small minority of rather cranky dissidents , who included amongst their ranks not just extreme Tories , but also professional plotters and even some outré Whigs , and would maintain that a Jacobite rebellion never stood any realistic chance of success . |
| 6 | a moment or two to answer a question not just five seconds |
| 7 | The erm safety on the transport yes I mean I am very happy to say that we will ask the , the staff to look at that and perhaps I can just clarify the meaning of that paragraph ah in four point eight when it says a m a new member of staff it means a new member of staff will be responsible for health and safety not just one person on his own . |
| 8 | Above all , there should be a knife amnesty with knife banks not just outside police stations but elsewhere . |
| 9 | Critical theory questions not just isolated elements of the society which it takes as its object ; it is the whole historical structure which is being criticized . |
| 10 | But the question is , what is involved in the assumption that there are different ontological existents not just different topics of discourse ; what conditions must be fulfilled before such an assumption can make clear sense ? |
| 11 | It is very necessary to exercise membership , particularly in , in those areas , change can just as easily be motivated from your members not just special interest groups and it is important to look at it in , in the broader sense . |
| 12 | We ca n't defend on a broad front George not just two of us . |
| 13 | In East Germany the party has been forced to hold ‘ round table ’ talks with the opposition groups , and to concede free elections not just sometime but next May . |
| 14 | The old elements were essentially the same , but the refinements made the weekly shows not just entertaining , but addictive , compulsive listening . |
| 15 | Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory , unless you count a depressing scene in which an audience collapses in laughter while the Voice of its Generation ( as Bluto in Animal House ) stuffs a sandwich down his pants . |
| 16 | ‘ Wired purports to be about America not just Belushi , but this is trite stuff about decadence in Tinseltown ; what it has to say about the nation is nugatory . ’ |
| 17 | It was an amazing spectacle , a country not just unworried by but positively enjoying inflation . |
| 18 | Five X plus two Y not just five x two Y. |
| 19 | It 's specially formulated to cut through grease and dirt and to wipe away germs , leaving surfaces and floors not just clean but hygienically clean . |
| 20 | The sapiential authority to advise , instruct and direct ; the moral authority that makes its acceptance not just useful but obligatory ; and its charismatic authority that allows the professional to appeal to some supreme interest of his client that not only outranks conscience but sometimes even the raison d'état ( 1977 , pp.17–18 , emphasis added ; see also 1975 ) . |