Example sentences of "[adj] was not just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered darkly if all this was n't just a waste of time , when they should be out hunting for clues to Benny 's whereabouts . |
| 2 | This was not just a problem for women in printing : it was one by all women who were drawn into industrial trades just as mechanization was creating a new division of labour . |
| 3 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 4 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 5 | El-Gharbi seemed to feel under no pressure at all to reduce his asking figure , and Owen felt that this was not just a matter of negotiating tactics . |
| 6 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 7 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 8 | Agrarian reform when it was finally announced in March 1980 was not just a question of too little too late . |