Example sentences of "and not just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 2 | Wesleyan colleges were established as theological training centres but Baptist and Congregational colleges , because of their origins as dissenting academies , still had a bias towards giving a general arts education and not just a theological training . |
| 3 | Running is a part of my life and not just a way to prepare for races . ’ |
| 4 | This will ensure that the market-place of ideas , which politicians watch so closely , will have all , and not just a few , stall-holders of the truth . |
| 5 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 6 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 7 | Now that the law embraced the principle of what lawyers called cessio bonorum — yielding up of goods — some thought imprisonment should be regarded as punishment and not just a way of preventing the debtor absconding . |
| 8 | The justification for selecting the variable with the largest penalty implicitly assumed that the penalty gave a useful estimate of the decrease in objective function value and not just a bound . |
| 9 | The point here , I think , is that if the latter is to be an ability , and not just a performance repertoire , then it has to be based on the internalization of systemic knowledge as a communicative resource . |
| 10 | Terminology is required in particular here to allow distinctions to be made between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to language , and to show that the grammar of spoken English is different from that of written English , and not just a haphazard deviation from it . |
| 11 | If you need to be absolutely sure that you really do have your money in your hand and not just a piece of paper which may or may not be paid , ask for one or other of the above . |
| 12 | Dale Spender , for example , is a well-known representative of the alternative idea that language is a cause of oppression , and not just a symptom of it . |
| 13 | This alternative low level route is a valid circuit in itself and not just a poor substitute . |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 15 | Will you allow people to address the panel as a a comment and not just a question yes or no if you say no fine we all understand and we have to er formulate our our ideas as a question and we 'll carry on that case is quite simple and straight forward like that . |
| 16 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 17 | When a woman is politically involved , the decision to have or not have a child becomes a political decision as well and not just a question of personal wishes . |
| 18 | The representatives of the media should see the meeting as a constructive activity and not just a propaganda exercise . |
| 19 | We shall now try to categorize these formal links and then examine how far they will go in helping to explain why a succession of sentences is discourse , and not just a disconnected jumble . |
| 20 | Thus what we should be looking for is a system of screening that is capable of picking out expeditiously all cases that require testing and not just a sample . |
| 21 | It is also our view that a full bail application followed ( if appropriate ) by a full hearing certificate should be made and not just a hearing limited to whether there has been a breach or not . |
| 22 | I wish , dearest , that I was a poet and not just a silly twenty-three-year-old man about town … |
| 23 | Labelling a particular SBU as a ‘ dog ’ should be seen as a challenge to the people involved with it to search out and propose new SBUs and not just a signal to give up and die . |
| 24 | And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices . |
| 25 | Since we the taxpayers are having to pay for the programme , can the Minister at least listen to the taxpayers on this and spend these huge sums of money on all our children and not just a few ? |
| 26 | First , everyone should realise that the countryside is a workplace and not just a recreation place . |
| 27 | What I have advocated is possible and not just a dream , but it would be remiss of me not to consider the nightmare scenario of colliery closures at a time when we are increasing restructuring grants by £1,000 million . |
| 28 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 29 | ( 95 ) Outdoors you will find Wren create new green dimensions with sensitive landscaping that creates a community and not just a row of houses . |
| 30 | Although the rigorous justification for supposing that deterministic chaos is a basic property of some non-linear systems ( and not just a matter of inadequate control ) comes from theory , its nature may be best illustrated by an actual physical system . |