Example sentences of "it is [not/n't] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just a matter of the tens of thousands who have streamed out of the country in recent weeks , via Budapest , Prague and Warsaw . |
| 2 | There is a rigid hierarchy but it is not just a sexual hierarchy . |
| 3 | ( In fact , there is carbohydrate craving , so it is not just a matter of apathy about cooking . ) |
| 4 | It is not an easy task — and it is not just a matter of buying the vaccines . |
| 5 | But it is not just a question of Turks in Berlin or even Turks in West Germany . |
| 6 | It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines . |
| 7 | Every health minister faces the same central problem : it is not just a matter of putting right the deficiencies of the past ; you also need to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the present . |
| 8 | ( Even worse : it is not just a god now , but gods ! ) |
| 9 | For ‘ it is not just a decorated ceiling ; it is a vision of the political situation of Scotland and Christendom ’ . |
| 10 | And there are some wonderfully positive people among those who have permanent disabilities or terminal illnesses so it is not just a case of being one of the ‘ lucky ’ ones . |
| 11 | It is not just a matter of making laws . |
| 12 | It is not just a question of providing more information . |
| 13 | It is not just a can of worms that the professor has been a digging . |
| 14 | Be active in your thoughts to counter the negative tendency , and if you think of rest and relaxation as recharging , you will see that there is something here to achieve ; it is not just a letting go . |
| 15 | It is not just a coincidence , nor is it simply a matter of ‘ preferred newspeak ’ that the ‘ local financial management ’ ( LFM ) of the pilot projects of the mid-1980s has become the ‘ Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) required by legislation . |
| 16 | It is not just a matter of learning new acronyms ( a formidable enough task ) but appreciating differences in meanings and expectations rooted in its characteristics , without being captured by them . |
| 17 | It is not just a historic document of immense important , it is a fascinating insight into what a really great pianist can do to the music we all know so well . |
| 18 | However , we can see by the diagram it is not just a straight shot from the eyeball into the security judgement . |
| 19 | It is not just a question of the monarchy to me . |
| 20 | It is not just a case of directing sufficient welfare benefits towards those in ‘ need ’ to induce a state of ‘ well-being ’ ( in which needs are satisfied ) . |
| 21 | ‘ And it is not just a one off thing — it must be a programme that is still in place long after we have a democratic government here . ’ |
| 22 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 23 | This may be true of the common-or-garden use of the word idea , but when a philosopher like John Locke says that a man is not speaking intelligibly unless his words ‘ excite the same ideas in the hearer which he makes them stand for in speaking ‘ i it is not just a way of talking . |
| 24 | In the present climate it is not just a matter of professional duty to stay engaged with the possibility of change : it makes better sense . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is not just a matter of explaining comparative failure . |
| 26 | It is not just a tourist 's generalisation to say that the Basques , with their deep , narrow valleys , are stubbornly provincial and to describe the Catalans , whose forebears ruled a Mediterranean empire , as cosmopolitans . |
| 27 | The stakes are high : it is not just a question of particular social groups ( ‘ What is it to be Black ? ’ , |
| 28 | It is not just a question of exchanging one for the other . |
| 29 | It is not just a question of social class . |
| 30 | The point is that it is not just a case of drawing circles around thinkers whose stance one may happen to approve . |