Example sentences of "[was/were] not just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these were not just facsimiles of Big Ted and Little Ted , no : this time Hamble was dressed head to toe in leather astride a miniature Harley Davidson . |
| 2 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 3 | That these were not just accidents which inevitably happen in modern travel and industry , was pointed out by the director general of the British Safety Council , James Tye : |
| 4 | Nature was seen as a process of strife between divine cosmic powers and demoniacal chaotic powers in which humans were not just spectators but were obliged to play an active part in helping to bring about the required phenomena by acting in full unison with nature . |
| 5 | But the Trees were not just Trees . |
| 6 | They were responsible for the complete show , which was why stories of stars giving notes to other actors or ordering changes in sets and costumes were not just examples of megalomania , but the desire to maintain the overall standard of whatever production they put their names to . |
| 7 | Engineers were not just people who got their hands dirty mending cars ! |
| 8 | They were n't just Maggie and Nevil any more , but a couple . |
| 9 | Mike Mann praised the site agents out in the field , saying that the accident figures achieved were n't just luck . |
| 10 | the barbers were n't just barbers then were they ? |
| 11 | Car journeys were n't just occasions for surveying the scenery . |
| 12 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
| 13 | Sutton 's focus on the Sun , and on headlines like ‘ GOTCHA ! ’ , was not just rivalry with its editor , Kelvin Mackenzie . |
| 14 | John Bryan was not just Steve 's good friend but also a distant relation . |
| 15 | The business of Eurame was not just drugs and cash , however . |
| 16 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 17 | That was not just vanity . |
| 18 | But Ferrari , even then , was not just Luca . |
| 19 | It was not just jealousy . |
| 20 | It was not just Diana who had to face the music but her parents as well . |
| 21 | He thought that a lot of residence was of high importance ; for he believed that the object of higher education was not just information , or preparation for a career , but a community of minds and personalities . |
| 22 | She was not just Fenna 's friend and child , his daughter of delight . |
| 23 | It was not just street demonstrators who were assembled against us . |
| 24 | With me , it was n't just cakes and sweets — it was everything . |
| 25 | But it was n't just Tyson 's playing credentials and Satriani 's say so that impressed original members Dan Arlie and Eric Valentine . |
| 26 | It was n't just forests that the Americans destroyed — a lot of farmland is only now sufficiently drained of herbicides to be planted with rice again . |
| 27 | But it was n't just Kalchu and Chola 's cows that were dying , and it was n't just bad luck either . |
| 28 | I do believe it was n't just inability to cope with a terrible handicap . |
| 29 | It was n't just adrenalin . |
| 30 | If indeed she had and it was n't just Feargal 's own assumptions . |