Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim here is not just that market coordination is necessarily anarchic . |
| 2 | He also clearly makes a point I had never considered before : that Bosola , the eternal outsider and masterless man , is not simply some rogue assassin but the author 's moral spokesman . |
| 3 | That cost , according to Brian Foster of Securitag , a company which installs security systems , varies from £2,000 to £60,000 depending on the size of the store , but Foster admits it is not so much ofa cure for theft as a way of changing its focus . |
| 4 | The question at issue is not so much prison reform — although our prison buildings are now shamefully antiquated , obsolete and , for the most part , entirely unsuitable for use as penal establishments — as the provision of up-to-date and more enlightened methods of dealing with the problem of treating the offender , and in particular the juvenile offender . |
| 5 | It 's not so much whatthey watch but thatthey watch — for hours and hours and hours . |
| 6 | ‘ This is n't just any department store . |
| 7 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 8 | This is n't just another investment opportunity for me , you see , Miss Williams . |
| 9 | It was second nature to weigh up a situation and draw conclusions but this was not just another news story , this was different . |
| 10 | Mind you it was not just any soccer pitch . |
| 11 | It was soon clear that few of those present could comprehend that it was not simply another shooting incident in the army 's war against the Provisional IRA . |
| 12 | Here the problem was not so much party loyalty as the fact that parliamentary procedures no longer fitted into the timescale or permitted an understanding of current administration . |
| 13 | he roared , still not entirely convinced that it was n't all some Limey hoax . |