Example sentences of "[vb -s] not just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 2 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 3 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 4 | In its largest and perhaps most significant perspective , deconstruction involves not just a critique of the grounds of knowledge in general , but specifically of the grounds of Occidental knowledge . |
| 5 | The type of cultural intervention envisaged by the Committee involves not just a preaching mission , but also active cultural transformation of a kind which requires a certain degree of " love " , or a liberal and sympathetic attachment not only to " folk " cultures but even to urban industrial cultures : " The ambassadors of poetry must be humble , they must learn to call nothing common or unclean — not even the local dialect , the clatter of the factory , or the smoky pall of our industrial centres " ( 238/260 ) . |
| 6 | In the hands of Althusser and Habermas , the critique of ideology becomes not just a basis for pouring scorn on the thinkers who have rationalized an exploitative economic and class system . |
| 7 | Like the newly-elected Prime Minister , with whom he shares not just a love of cricket , but a firm adherence to basic principles , a natural decency and a dogged belief in hard work , the England captain enjoys a challenge against the odds . |