Example sentences of "[not/n't] just that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 2 | None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience . |
| 3 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 4 | A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single . |
| 5 | It 's not just that we 're going to write articles about EastEnders , but what we 're interested in is EastEnders , The Bill , Brookside , because a lot of people actually watch these programmes , and there is clearly a way in which programmes do seem to be referencing each other and dealing with similar topics . |
| 6 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 7 | Not just that we found him so many years ago . |
| 8 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 9 | Well it 's not just that it destroyed |
| 10 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 11 | But the really interesting bit about Rosemary Thorne 's appointment is not just that it 's newsworthy there 's only one other woman finance director in the country 's top 100 companies but what they 've done about her old job . |
| 12 | It 's not just that it 's the delay in it getting to you anyway . |
| 13 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 14 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 15 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 16 | It was not just that he was unversed in Washington mores ; he was also a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense . |
| 17 | ‘ When we say a person is responsible for what he does we mean not just that he was the agent … we also say that the act reflects ( back ) on the agent , ’ writes David Wood ( 1973 , p. 191 ) . |
| 18 | It 's not just that he 's seen so much more life . |
| 19 | Not just that he 's home with me but we had our courting days and you and Sarah missed even those . |
| 20 | It 's not just that he needs the money . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 22 | in the marriage relationship it 's not just that he says I have taken you , and all that you have now is mine , I take your debt and I discharge it fully , your debt of holiness to God , your debt of righteousness to God , he says I take it and I pay that price in full ! |
| 23 | Er so you would you would need a very heavy rectification programme to sh to ensure , not just that you had enough cadres , but that the cadres were going in with , with the right attitudes . |
| 24 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 25 | It is n't just that she does n't have the stomach to eat anything because of her morbid dread of flying ; more that she ca n't accept touching anything anti-Green . |
| 26 | It was n't just that she was strikingly beautiful ; there was an unworldly air about her . |
| 27 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 28 | It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been . |
| 29 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |
| 30 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |