Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] not just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military strategists in the Pentagon , in the British Ministry of Defence and in India independently realise that table-top test-tube fusion should produce not just energy but also neutrons and tritium , crucial ingredients in making atomic and thermonuclear weapons . |
| 2 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 3 | The so-called league tables will publish not just examination results but truancy rates , staying-on rates , the destination of pupils and other information . |
| 4 | With 1992 and the European single market , all these things will involve not just UK but also EC law . |
| 5 | Does he understand that planning permission was initially gained , with difficulty , for the building of motorways through areas of outstanding natural beauty and great environmental sensitivity , so many people would not be keen to see developers spending hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of pounds fighting in a long succession of inquiries so that they can build not just motorway service areas — possibly excluding the disabled and lorries — but hotels and other facilities that would never have received permission when the original planning consent was granted ? |