Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 2 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 3 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 4 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 5 | Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is . |
| 6 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 7 | It 's not just that Fleet Street is n't where it was . |
| 8 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 9 | It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues . |
| 10 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 11 | I enjoyed reading the review by James Hall of Piero Manzoni , Catalogue Raisonné ( The Art Newspaper , No. 20 , July-September , p.16 ) , not just as publisher of the catalogue and of the first monograph on the artist ( Milan , 1967 ) , but also as a friend of Piero Manzoni , in his private and his public life together we did Tavole di accertamento ( 1958–60 ) , published in 1962 . |
| 12 | I derive untold pleasure from looking at buildings , but not just as objects which please the eye , nor just as works of art , as you would look at pictures in a gallery ; I also like imagining who commissioned them , who built them , what sort of person first lingered on their balcony or opened their casement window . |
| 13 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 14 | In particular , teachers will somehow have to be ‘ managed ’ to participate in change , not just as foot soldiers obedient to curriculum manager ‘ officers ’ , but as genuine participant professionals . |
| 15 | Later , I reflected that the Tudors came to Ireland not just as rulers , but as missionaries-by-force , in Islamic style , determined to change the people 's religion . |
| 16 | According to , chief investment manager at Scottish Equitable : ‘ One of the reasons Taurus failed was because a lot of banks make money not just as custodians but as registrars . |
| 17 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 18 | Morgan sees similarities between the North Sea and his new charge , and not just as providers of the bulk of the lifeblood for BP investment in new exploration opportunities worldwide . |
| 19 | Snooker players clash not just as players but as personalities with their own quirks , style , and personal feuds — Alex Higgins ‘ The Hurricane ’ or Jimmy White ‘ The Tooting Tearaway ’ set against the inscrutable , trance-like calmness of Steve Davis or Cliff Thorburn , or the bantering and benign Dennis Taylor and Willie Thorne ; all the ‘ lads ’ are part of an immensely lucrative media ‘ hype ’ carefully planned by a professional promoter-cum-accountant . |
| 20 | ‘ We needed that performance today as a nation , not just as players or manager , ’ he said . |
| 21 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 22 | Kirk came into the project not just as actor , having ensured that his own production company , Bryna , would co-produce with director Richard Quine 's own production company . |
| 23 | They come into the world not just as bundles of flesh and bone but with already distinctive personalities capable of initiating different responses from those around them . |
| 24 | He knew those courts and gardens , not just as places and secret short cuts , but as a whole pattern of life and behaviour . |
| 25 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 26 | And what else are we to do , not just as individuals , but as a society , but plan some kind of future for ourselves ? |
| 27 | Common to these readings is the observation of fundamental connections and parallels between the merchant and the monk , not just as individuals but as representatives of late medieval culture in a very broad form : of economic and religious life . |
| 28 | The west of Ireland still enjoys rich ‘ mossy ’ and lichen-covered woods ( and even a lichen-eating and spotted Kerry slug ) , not just because areas such as Killarney have a moist climate but because they have so far escaped most of Europe 's pollution . |
| 29 | The tropical research should be supported not just because Britain now has a large immigrant population from tropical regions , but because it could be one of the country 's most significant and meaningful contributions to the Third World . |
| 30 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |