Example sentences of "[not/n't] just [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an odd remark , because , when auditors refer to the company as ‘ the client ’ they are not just using a loose colloquialism , they are being legally precise ; the company is the client . |
| 2 | They 're not just holding a private function . |
| 3 | Remember that you want to influence the group , not just win a two-way battle . |
| 4 | The marriage of Anne and Tim does not just have a personal significance for them . |
| 5 | The purpose is to check that you are not just having a prolonged holiday but are actually living as a resident abroad . |
| 6 | But Aristotle is not just making a sociological point about what is and is not permitted to women in his society . |
| 7 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 8 | For Italian Vogue he dyed the skin of Linda Evangelista nearly black and painted Rachel Williams silver not just to produce a great photograph ( although he has produced many ) , but to synthesise a vision of fashion that is more significant than showing clothes . |
| 9 | But legal proceedings are often brought for a variety of reasons : not just to obtain a favourable outcome , but also in order , for example , to obtain publicity or to force a reconsideration of a contentious decision or policy or as a bargaining tactic . |
| 10 | Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . |
| 11 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |
| 12 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 13 | She has very clear pale skin and so is used to having quite strong make-up ( ‘ so that I do n't just look a bland mass ’ ) . |
| 14 | Do n't just write a continuous stream of unorganised information . |
| 15 | Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work ! |