Example sentences of "was not just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Schuman Plan was not just economic . |
| 2 | It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |
| 4 | The competition was not just humbling for Joe but also exhausting : ‘ We were playing non stop bridge for 11 hours per day over four days . |
| 5 | Enthoven 's solution was not just better and stronger management but a structural separation of roles . |
| 6 | At his accession , James was not just powerful , but also popular . |
| 7 | That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing , it was incredible . |
| 8 | He had also noticed that she was not just unhappy this time . |
| 9 | This was not just embarrassing , it was downright dangerous . |
| 10 | But it was not just long service that endeared him to Palace fans , for Billy was an enthusiastic player , full of pep and fight , with the ‘ never say die ’ attitude that supporters love to see . |
| 11 | Anyway , the reason I woke you was not just bloody-mindedness . |
| 12 | The Newbolt — Leavis claim that English was not just one more academic subject does not survive well in this climate . |
| 13 | The failure was not just one of execution , nor even one of mistaken concept ; it was more the product of a profound ambivalence in the relationship between the World Bank and the government . |
| 14 | What is more , it seems that there was not just one bursting of the dam , but as many as seven , with the dam being re-implaced every time by fresh glacial advances . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems as though there was not just one Princess Diana , but one who evolved into someone quite different and much , much tougher than the one we first knew . ’ |
| 16 | There was not just one single box as subject . |
| 17 | There was not just one contract made between the garage proprietor and the customer . |
| 18 | Clearly we do not wish to go through the same debate that we had at the greenbelt inquiry , erm but it is very relevant erm you 'll see from our submissions to the panel that er quite clearly the City Council did not agree entirely with the proposed boundary of the greenbelt , the City Council did take the view that there were certain areas of land proposed to be included in the greenbelt er which did not fulfil a greenbelt function in the Council 's view , and that was clearly was discussed at the greenbelt inquiry , it was not just one site , er we clearly were not not in our er responsibility to identify a specific site outside our district , but there were a number of areas er subject to those objections , not just from ourselves , but as Mr erm Donson has said er from various objectors . |
| 19 | As well they were they was not just plain yes it was bonny . |
| 20 | Nan was not just beautiful in Emily 's eyes . |
| 21 | This was not just true of towns and cities . |
| 22 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 23 | The revised clause is not exactly a paraphrase of the original one , since it implies something more : the old man was not just insensitive to his elder son 's feelings , but was so insensitive as to be possibly unaware of them . |
| 24 | Thus , by allowing the divisions within his camp to exist and , at the same time , constantly insinuating that , without him , pre-war " chaos " would return , Franco succeeded in creating the belief that he was not just indispensable to political stability , he was consubstantial with it . |
| 25 | The arrangement , however , was not just expedient . |
| 26 | That was not just empty rhetoric . |
| 27 | The implementation of comprehensive education was not just significant for teachers in secondary schools , who were forced to reassess their curriculum and school organisation . |
| 28 | Town planning was not just place-specific ; it was inescapably linked with questions of distribution and equity . |
| 29 | This was not just sour grapes on the part of the ‘ grown-ups ’ . |
| 30 | It was a recurring motif in the Newbolt Report , echoed by Leavis , that English was not just another school or university subject , to be placed alongside geography or geology . |