Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Knight , of Railnews , who proposed the motion , said consultants were not just a waste of money , but also a waste of time , a waste of resources and a drain on the whole of British industry . |
| 2 | Such activities were not just a waste of time which could be more usefully passed making profits for capitalists . |
| 3 | Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you . |
| 4 | Private court patronage was not just a reserve of employment for members of a political interest , however , for there was danger in it for the patron . |
| 5 | On both sides it was understood that Cagney was not just a man off the New York street but rather a remarkable screen performer . |
| 6 | Probably I would be more convinced that Tromsø , with its snug wooden houses , its thick air-spaced double glazing , its heating systems , its hot water from the tap , its colour televisions and supermarkets , was not just a retreat from reality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The horror provoked by the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780 was not just a response to their ferocity . |
| 9 | It was not just a question of climate as the British sometimes liked to think . |
| 10 | But it was not just a question of the physical environment ; discipline was also integral to the control of the mental environment of individuals ; it was part and parcel of self-respect , self-control and perseverance , as well as the ability to shape the nature of one 's own existence . |
| 11 | It was not just a question of such obvious policy differences as the question of whether Nato should continue to exist — there were differences of emphasis , too . |
| 12 | It was not just a question of economics . |
| 13 | But it was not just a question of punishment ; for those who had fought on the winning side there were rewards to reap . |
| 14 | Agrarian reform when it was finally announced in March 1980 was not just a question of too little too late . |
| 15 | This was not a simple task , for it was not just a question of choosing one approach in preference to another , but of defining the nature of the object to be studied . |
| 16 | Sally Gunnell 's well deserved victory in this year 's Olympics ( see left with her gold and bronze medals ) was not just a boost for employer Pannell Kerr Forster — its fax paper now reads ‘ Sally Gunnell — Olympic Champion Another PKF First ’ — but also for the British team . |
| 17 | It was not just a matter of handling gate-money and paying the players . |
| 18 | Politics , of course , was not just a matter of party or creed , but how many Right-On points were scored for being black or female . |
| 19 | Britain 's importance was not just a matter of the political prestige gained during the war . |
| 20 | For some of the writers this point was taken much further : it was not just a matter of unacknowledged ideological leanings ; the causal-corrective stance came to be portrayed as a fundamentally misguided and distorting approach to the study of crime . |
| 21 | But being a gentleman in England was not just a matter of giving orders ; it required considerable wealth , spent lavishly and in a way that commanded respect . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This was not just a matter of revival of basic industries in previously depressed areas . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The underlying question , however , was not just a matter of views . |
| 26 | The underlying question , however , was not just a matter of views , but the feeling that Edinburgh 's primary symbol — one of history , endurance and nationhood — would be diminished by speculative offices . |
| 27 | In Glasgow fighting between fans was not just a matter for juveniles . |
| 28 | Traditionally , literacy campaigns in peripheral rural areas would rely on the Bible , which was not just a source of reading material but , also , a way of encouraging conformity . |
| 29 | But Boaz was not just a relation by marriage , but he was erm one of Elimelech 's family . |
| 30 | It was not just a failure of courage or conscience . |