Example sentences of "[verb] not just [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 4 | It is occasionally the case that a defendant will wish not just to have the plaintiff examined , but that tests should be administered by their medical expert . |
| 5 | Renting property means not just renting a place to live in , or to run a business from . |
| 6 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 7 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 8 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 9 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 10 | Do not just plan a time plus/minus an allowance for wind . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 12 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |
| 13 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 14 | According to director of software marketing , Dan Esterlin , Primrose arranges things using a peer-to-peer system and does not just partition the application once , but every time the application is run . |
| 15 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |