Example sentences of "[vb past] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 2 | Lunging forward with a net , he caught not just a leaf but a tiny fish as well . |
| 3 | These agencies helped not just with marketing but with information . |
| 4 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 5 | The crisis occurred not just in the old industries such as steel and shipbuilding but in artificial fibres , electrical goods and , par excellence , motor manufacture . |
| 6 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 7 | In case of doubt , Justinian ruled that these provisions applied not just to dispositions charged on the heir , but also to trusts charged on legatees and trust beneficiaries . |
| 8 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 9 | Mr Robertson said there were ‘ serious questions of substance ’ arising from Mr Hurd 's statement , which concerned not just amendment 27 , but the treaty itself . |
| 10 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 11 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 12 | Just for a moment , suppose that it had been proved beyond doubt that reincarnation was a fact and we all lived not just once but many times . |
| 13 | The hostility of the FA arose not just from a lack of commercial sense but from a more profound belief that gambling was wrong . |
| 14 | Emergencies demanding the swift rallying of armed men arose not just in times of national conflict , but when large or small bands of rustlers swooped on livestock and rode off with them , as those Hexham raiders had intended . |
| 15 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 16 | When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery . |
| 17 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 18 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 19 | Set in death seemed not just dead . |
| 20 | Thurlstone township was a sub-division of the large parish of Penistone and comprised not just the village but several scattered hamlets and numerous isolated farms on the edge of the Pennine moors . |
| 21 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 22 | It came not just from the outside world , but also from their friends ( notably the Greeks ) , their allies ( the Serbs of Serbia ) , and even their leader ( Radovan Karadzic ) . |
| 23 | Ironically , on the day when the knives were out for Taylor , his main support came not just from the man he took over from in July 1990 but also from Terry Venables , a potential successor . |
| 24 | The play would be comprehensible to anyone , he stressed , as the narrative thrust came not just from the script in Gaelic , English and the north-east 's own dialect , but from music , dance , vision and conversation . |
| 25 | Jesus came not just to forgive and to cleanse , but to break the power of sin |
| 26 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 27 | Martin Potter boasted not just a manager , coach and partner in the shape of Peter Colbert , but an adviser , an agent , and occasional heavies and bureaucrats who hovered around him as if they were guarding the crown jewels . |
| 28 | When he urged the pieds noirs to give up integration , when he ordered the army to remain loyal , when he appealed to the FLN to lay down their arms and negotiate , he evoked not just the powers and responsibilities of his office but the confidence that they should have in the person of himself , General de Gaulle . |
| 29 | In the past , with the economy in deep recession , strikes by Solidarity threatened not just the government but Poland 's reforms . |
| 30 | His road back to traditionalism could appear the only way to escape a theological disintegration which threatened not just Vatican I , but Chalcedon and Nicaea as well . |