Example sentences of "[verb] not just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 2 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 3 | In my attempt at a wide-angled overview , however , I shall argue that the camera has not just two but many sides , and that feminist film criticism and theory can only benefit from casting its eye outside a field of vision in which the theory of the gaze and questions of representation and power have been dominant for too long . |
| 4 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 5 | be aware of the need to provide not just on-the-spot support but , where possible , support that will have a lasting effect on classroom practice ; |
| 6 | The pressures of long-term planning will affect not just post-registration courses . |
| 7 | One possible answer is that a quasar produces not just one beam , or one pair of oppositely-directed beams , but multiple beams . |
| 8 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 9 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 10 | For its part , violence involves not just physical force , injuring or annihilating persons , but also |
| 11 | China 's rush to capitalism is also a rush towards individual liberty : the chance to choose not just fancy clothes and fast cars but how to live , where to live and who to be ruled by . |
| 12 | And the boys supported the girls in wanting not just better sex education in school but also lessons on developing relationships . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The station will benefit not just international passengers . |
| 15 | Set in death seemed not just dead . |
| 16 | Gill-nets are also generally much less selective than most other fishing methods , and often catch not just marine mammals but many other non-target fish species . |
| 17 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 18 | Across to the er , the left , erm , can you erm , create a file linking formula , that links not just one cell , but a whole range of cells . |
| 19 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 20 | The 1882 act was the first attempt at an effective conservation law in Britain ; it is the father of all the legislation which protects not just ancient monuments and historic buildings but also sites of scientific importance . |
| 21 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
| 22 | Many of the previous chapters have been concerned with the description of phonemes , and in 5.2 it was pointed out that the subject of phonology includes not just this aspect ( which is usually called segmental phonology ) but also several others . |
| 23 | I was then promoted to be a Deputy Chief Officer and shortly afterwards became a Chief Officer of the department with over 500 staff providing not just legal and administrative services , but purchasing , management services and estate management as well . |
| 24 | They are connected to the rest mass through the relation given in Section 1.3 : This intimate connection of mass , energy and momentum suggests that a general law of gravitation will contain not just mass but energy and momentum as well . |
| 25 | She was twenty-two , and unusually innocent and inexperienced for her age — lacking not just sexual experience , but experience of the wider world in general . |
| 26 | And they still keep on sending not just one flash in the pan you know . |
| 27 | The result distorts not just British representation but the make-up of the whole parliament . |
| 28 | ( An existing Directive already bans television advertising , and a proposal supported by the UK Government and currently in course of approval will ban not just advertising but production and marketing of oral moist snuff — Skoal Bandits and the like . ) |
| 29 | With the assistance that is increasingly forthcoming from ordinary members of both sides of the community , they will resolutely and successfully pursue not just those who carry out terrorist attacks but also those who plan them . |
| 30 | Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room . |