Example sentences of "not just [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick , on the other hand , Ludens noticed , proceeded in the opposite direction , occasionally speaking as if he had been , when Marcus arrived , not just dying but actually dead . |
| 2 | For Eliot in 1923 all primitive or savage art contained comic and tragic elements , comedy and tragedy being not just late but maybe also ‘ impermanent intellectual abstractions ’ . |
| 3 | Coalition building , therefore , provides not just personal or political advantage ; it is also an important process for making sure that the ideas that do get developed have merit and broad support . |
| 4 | The tagsets produced ( i.e. the groups of words ) thereby contain not just syntactic but also semantic information . |
| 5 | Noble Metals is basing everything they do on ‘ not just satisfying but surprising and delighting our customers ’ . |
| 6 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 7 | I was then promoted to be a Deputy Chief Officer and shortly afterwards became a Chief Officer of the department with over 500 staff providing not just legal and administrative services , but purchasing , management services and estate management as well . |
| 8 | The man was worse than she 'd thought , not just egocentric but mad , to boot . |
| 9 | The sapiential authority to advise , instruct and direct ; the moral authority that makes its acceptance not just useful but obligatory ; and its charismatic authority that allows the professional to appeal to some supreme interest of his client that not only outranks conscience but sometimes even the raison d'état ( 1977 , pp.17–18 , emphasis added ; see also 1975 ) . |
| 10 | It is the refusal to accept an excuse that the recession is biting hard — clients need to buy to comply with the law , and most importantly to show their competitors that they are not just surviving but thriving . |
| 11 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 12 | Not just polite but really welcoming and helpful . |
| 13 | If accompanied by an intention to cause death it 's not just criminal but murder . ’ |
| 14 | Another collection , edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka , Discovering Reality ( 1983 ) , a wide-ranging and challenging selection of essays in epistemology , metaphysics , methodology and philosophy of science , argues that it is not just content but also methodological assumptions and epistemology which show male bias . |
| 15 | We argued that the critical requirements in an INSET programme are that the very diverse needs of different teachers be recognized and addressed , that teachers themselves be central to the process of defining their needs , and that diverse needs be met by diverse provision , in respect of not just content and level but also style and venue . |
| 16 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 17 | We need to be able to define a measure of strain which is valid for any type of deformation , not just extensional or shear distortion . |
| 18 | In his plates for John Gould 's bird books the character of the bird comes through , so that the birds of prey are not just accurate but menacing . |
| 19 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 20 | To promise £35 billion-worth of extras and then to renationalise these concerns — as has been said , it might cost as much as £10 billion — is not just absurd but highly irresponsible . |
| 21 | Arbitrary link or relation names were allowed — not just hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations . |
| 22 | Left as they were , they were not just incompetent but dangerous . |
| 23 | In East Germany the party has been forced to hold ‘ round table ’ talks with the opposition groups , and to concede free elections not just sometime but next May . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is of no value to the frogs , as individuals , if their attacker dies after they themselves have been eaten , so they have also developed the most striking , vivid colours — not just yellow and black , but scarlet , virulent green and purple . |
| 26 | ( An existing Directive already bans television advertising , and a proposal supported by the UK Government and currently in course of approval will ban not just advertising but production and marketing of oral moist snuff — Skoal Bandits and the like . ) |
| 27 | The challenge is to help create a climate within which it is not just acceptable but normal for teachers to talk openly about their feelings , their perceptions , their misgivings , their ideals and their experiments , whether large or small , successful or unsuccessful . |
| 28 | This garden is overwhelmingly about colour , not just safe and currently rather fashionable pastels , but bold , strong tones . |
| 29 | They are connected to the rest mass through the relation given in Section 1.3 : This intimate connection of mass , energy and momentum suggests that a general law of gravitation will contain not just mass but energy and momentum as well . |
| 30 | Legal advice is often not just advisable but essential . |