Example sentences of "[verb] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat , but by a deep artificial lake . |
| 2 | The key to the approach though lies not just with the police but with the Northants diversion unit . |
| 3 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 4 | These awards are won not just by those responsible for export sales — although their contribution is very important — but by every employee in the business . |
| 5 | Those responsible are interested in an effective total process not just an effective interview and all the stages in the process interact . |
| 6 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 7 | and erm justify long-term development needs not just in total , but by recognizing making a major contribution to total land use but also . |
| 8 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 9 | ( e ) The definition covers not just intentions ( " deliberate " ) deception but also reckless misrepresentations . |
| 10 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 11 | But another feature in the projects noted is that they have elements both of research and development in them , and the work has been pursued not just with one school but usually with several concurrently . |
| 12 | It is pursued not just in specially funded research institutes , but on a large scale in industry , and by private foundations and policy institutes . |
| 13 | Your reply should therefore include not just what you actually did but any special skills you were able to bring to the job and any particular equipment you have been trained to use . |
| 14 | This is happening not just in the ghettoes of American cities where intolerance has become institutionalised . |
| 15 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 16 | You are expected not just to have one by you , but to answer it or , if you can not ( because you are ‘ in a meeting ’ ) , then to have a secretary to take messages and make sure that calls are returned . |
| 17 | ‘ Everybody complains about taxes today , but in ancient times wealthy Romans were expected not just to pay their taxes but to finance public works , as well . ’ |
| 18 | As The Very Model of a Man is full of angels and story-tellers — two essential ingredients of ‘ magic realism ’ — there is clearly a strong hint that Jacobson is attempting to rewrite not just the Bible but our contemporary literary orthodoxies , which are in danger of assuming the status of a surrogate religion . |
| 19 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 20 | The violence reportedly included not just clashes between rioters and security forces but attacks by Tadjiks on people from minority groups , including Russians . |
| 21 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 22 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 23 | In my attempt at a wide-angled overview , however , I shall argue that the camera has not just two but many sides , and that feminist film criticism and theory can only benefit from casting its eye outside a field of vision in which the theory of the gaze and questions of representation and power have been dominant for too long . |
| 24 | Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print . |
| 25 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 26 | It should be pointed out that the decline has not just been in evidence under the Conservative government , but was also apparent before 1979 , although it has accelerated subsequently . |
| 27 | In this picture , Joni has not just imitated or interpreted a style , but has been able to create an object with all the patina , or aura , of an ancient work of art . |
| 28 | It has not just been a question of choosing between state action and individual responsibility , but rather of finding the means to link the two effectively . |
| 29 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 30 | At the most general level , what Table 2.2 demonstrates is that the absolute loss of manufacturing employment has not just been ‘ reflected ’ in the different parts of the country . |