Example sentences of "was [not/n't] just [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 3 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 4 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 5 | It was not just that he was unversed in Washington mores ; he was also a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense . |
| 6 | It was not just that the Old King possessed the greater resources — which he did -he was also able to overwhelm his enemies by sheer speed of movement . |
| 7 | As she talked Eva revealed it was not just that she was coming back to God , but that she had realised she must give her whole self to him for the ministry . |
| 8 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 9 | It was not just that his career had suffered : he would have been an errand boy if it would have done her any good . |
| 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 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 14 | It was n't just that Bernice had no time for women who made themselves look like that ; the other woman demanded attention . |
| 15 | It was n't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening . |
| 16 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
| 17 | It was n't just that their possessions , wood and porcelain , paint and linen , symbolised their joint life . |
| 18 | It was n't just that she was strikingly beautiful ; there was an unworldly air about her . |
| 19 | It was n't just some inevitable reserve because of the age difference , and it was n't just that she was an intensely private person whose public persona did n't tell the whole story . |
| 20 | It was n't just that she had grown older and softer or that they were harder than he had been . |
| 21 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |