Example sentences of "is [adv] just that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 2 | Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues . |