Example sentences of "[noun sg] not just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His definition of a statutory constitution does , however , allow us to distinguish constitutional law from other law by clear criteria , thus giving the term not just a specific meaning , but a meaning with consequences . |
| 2 | Contrary to what some people suppose , boredom 15 a strong emotion not just a matter of apathy and inertia . |
| 3 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 4 | Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts , but something that must be looked at away from politcs . |
| 5 | Unlike the infant boys of previous minorities , an infant girl would be a pawn in the marriage market — the traditional female role — but one who took with her to her husband not just a dowry , but a kingdom . |
| 6 | Centuries after their creation , we intervene to limit the deterioration of frescoes , painted panels , canvases or marbles , and to preserve for posterity not just an empty shell but the enduring substance of a work of art . |
| 7 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 8 | Malebranche makes the material world not just a bare possibility but a redundant one too . |
| 9 | A a and there is a real cost , a proper cost not just a erm an internal cost for preparing these . |
| 10 | Others have been suggested : to prevent the conduct of government business being unduly hampered and delayed by ‘ excessive ’ litigation ; to reduce the risk that civil servants will behave in over-cautious and unhelpful ways in dealing with citizens for fear of being sued if things go wrong ; to ration scarce judicial resources ; to ensure that the argument on the merits is presented in the best possible way , by a person with a real interest in presenting it ( but quality of presentation and personal interest do not always go together ) ; to ensure that people do not meddle paternalistically in the affairs of others ( query : can representative applicants be accused of this ? ) ; to ensure that the applicant has a personal interest not just an ideological concern in the outcome ( but , query , may not a genuine concern for the interests of others be neither purely personal nor purely ideological ? ) . |