Example sentences of "is not just [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party .
2 However , the test of what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ as opposed to ‘ practicable ’ , is not just whether the measures taken are financially or physically possible but the degree of risk must be balanced against the sacrifice involved .
3 What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go .
4 It is not just that dealing with Old Age Pensioners who have reported missing budgies falls outside the definition of what counts as ‘ real ’ police work , the work is also disliked because it is problematic , for policemen need to display competence in the way they convey sympathy while admitting that nothing will be done .
5 It is not just that there survive undeconstructed residues of , say , Romanticism and modernism , or that the constructed forms echo still within the deconstructed ( although they clearly do survive in these ways ) ; it is also that they exert an influence in and as their newly deconstructed state .
6 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 .
7 It is not just that many of the old structures of central planning have been demolished , or that much of the government is now in the hands of people who still refer to themselves quite unselfconsciously as ‘ the opposition ’ .
8 It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough .
9 It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be .
10 It is not just that a ‘ market ’ approach to the administration of services dehumanizes people and makes doubtful assumptions about the way organizations actually work .
11 A sign of our having grown up is not just that we would n't listen to a Top Twenty single even if by any chance we could , but that we organize life so that we will never have to listen , by chance , to a Top Twenty single .
12 I believe the reason is not just that the statement is more dramatic but the nature of the drama .
13 It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor .
14 It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues .
15 It is not just that one supplements the Other : .
16 ‘ It is not just that the unwanted presence of rainbow trout can ruin the sport but there is also the environmental impact of these strangers , ’ said a spokesman .
17 It is not just that the ideas which underpin progressive primary methods have been , with a few notable exceptions , poorly articulated .
18 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 .
19 It is not just that the tax offices are the home of a great deal of corruption , which has survived many previous attempted clean-ups and , so far , even the arrival of computerisation .
20 More radically still , Derrida works at the limits of any possible philosophy of history , arguing that it is not just that the problems of hermeneutics , specifically of interpretation and language , affect historical understanding , but that what in a broad sense he calls writing , or différance , determines history .
21 It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing .
22 He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves .
23 Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion .
24 It is not just that the sufferer loses friends from the disordered behaviour .
25 Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is .
26 It is not just that there is no reality , but that man has no direct way of making contact with it .
27 The reason why linguistics has had such importance for literary theory , however , is not just that a change of direction has taken place in the development of the discipline .
28 The problem is not just that frequently patients in other European countries have to pay for their treatment .
29 The problem is not just that the children have not attended a school where English is taught ; they have not been to a school of any description for years on end .
30 But the really interesting bit about Rosemary Thorne 's appointment is not just that it 's newsworthy there 's only one other woman finance director in the country 's top 100 companies but what they 've done about her old job .
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