Example sentences of "and [not/n't] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Soviet Union as elsewhere , what matters is how well people manage their dilemmas and not just whether they solve them . |
| 2 | The home is a hazardous place , and not just if you are elderly , in fact more accidents happen to the young , who tend to rush about more and trip over things or fall down staircases . |
| 3 | It remains background music , and not just because , in Keith Turnbull 's tidy production , the players are neatly packed away behind Gavin Semple 's wonderful , octopoid hotel boiler . |
| 4 | He was sweating , and not just because of the stuffiness of the room . |
| 5 | Therefore , they decided to put their energy into a battle they could only lose , and not just because of television but also because they did so little on their own account to improve the cinemas , and to provide an environment which would lure potential audiences away from their increasingly comfortable homes . |
| 6 | Other countries will smell British self-interest in these directives , and not just because Sir Leon Brittan is the commissioner who dreamed them up . |
| 7 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 8 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 9 | And not just because as teenagers it is no longer that easy to keep them safely by your side . |
| 10 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 11 | Clients were also causing headaches , and not just because of fees . |
| 12 | And not just because he 's affronted at the idea of a dragon beating him over 100 metres . |
| 13 | Jealous because Mellor , just 43 , has enjoyed a remarkable rise — and not just because of that friendship . |
| 14 | They were also disparate in economic terms , and not just because of the dominant size of Britain . |
| 15 | And not just because there is no extant reference to the sculpture from the first three centuries after the warrior 's death . |
| 16 | Laggan Locks , just along from the hostel , was very much the heart of the area for all our doings — and not just because it has a tearoom ! |
| 17 | " I bought a second-hand copy deliberately , and not just because of the price … " |
| 18 | And not just because of the tale of years involved . |
| 19 | Feeling years older than when she woke up this morning — and not just because she had acquired a new , sophisticated façade of hair and clothing during the day — Belinda plunged into the middle of the party crowd again . |
| 20 | I wish you two lots over there would get your act together so that people who chair the meetings were of the right calibre for a chairman and not just because it was their turn . |
| 21 | Yes , of course you could , and not just because there 's pretty coloured pictures in one and not in the other although that 's part of it , that 's part of the presentation . |
| 22 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |
| 23 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 24 | For this reason you should take young dogs out on various journeys , and not just when they are going for a walk . |
| 25 | They do n't want to be praised and stroked for every little thing , but they do want their work to be noticed and acknowledged every so often — and not just when they screwed something up or forgot it . |
| 26 | The ‘ distrustful fellow ’ of the past is present , and not just as a commemorative item . |
| 27 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 28 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 29 | To do this , education has to be seen as a continuing life process linked to social and economic activity at all points and not just as a precursor to employment and a dependent adjunct thereafter . |
| 30 | Miller and Swift do not point out the important fact that conservatives care for language in itself , and not just as an indicator of social mores . |