Example sentences of "be not just [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 3 | Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's not just that Fleet Street is n't where it was . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 11 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 12 | It was n't just that Major appeared to have accepted a dare to go through an entire broadcast without offering a single specific incentive of any kind for people to vote for him , but Brunson , an experienced broadcaster , was even odder . |
| 13 | It was n't just that Nottingham 's studious fullback landed seven goals from his solitary World Cup appearance , against the American Eagles at Twickenham last October . |