Example sentences of "not just [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 2 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 3 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 5 | That 's generally if they both desire integration so it 's not just done on the part of one person . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not just shivering from the cold . |
| 7 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 8 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 9 | We are not just watching from the sidelines , but rather are rolling our sleeves up and getting involved not just in getting local people back into work , but in keeping them there . |
| 10 | The one-flesh nature of the relationship does not just refer to the sexuality of marriage ; although sexuality in marriage is both an expression and symbol of that oneness . |
| 11 | Bar codes scanned at the check-out counters of Kmart 's new store at Auburn Hills , near Detroit , for example , are not just recorded in the store 's point-of-sales computer to keep the finances straight . |
| 12 | As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos . |
| 13 | The newspaper concluded : ‘ Soldiers might take time to consider whether in this attitude they are not just fixed in the past ’ ( The Daily Telegraph , 12.6.1986 ) . |
| 14 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 15 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 16 | More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . |
| 17 | Do not just go to the solicitor who did you conveyancing , or walk into your nearest solicitor 's firm on the high street . |
| 18 | It 's a problem which applies to all young photographers apparently , not just operating in the music field . |
| 19 | And then he said , I do n't mean to put pressure on , but I want to get to know you , we 've got so much in common and erm I want to take you out for dinner , not just go to the concert , but , we do n't get to know each other that way . |
| 20 | and that obviously they would be tend to be other children with mother 's there so they would need perhaps a play facility there and other children who goes to the E N T clinic can go to the not just go to the outpatients casualty |
| 21 | Be aware of the organisational context of work and not just concentrate on the job itself ( Herzberg ) . |
| 22 | Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual . |
| 23 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 24 | The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines . |
| 25 | Guide books from the mid-twelfth century to " The Wonders of Rome " ( Mirabilia Urbis Rome ) began to pay attention to the pagan monuments and were not just guides to the tombs of the martyrs and the saints . |
| 26 | His nonconformity was not just limited to the roles he chose or to his moody persona but also to his sexuality . |
| 27 | The talisman will have become a docket , and a docket with a sinister purpose ; for the change is not just to conform with the requirements of the EC but signals a fundamental change of function . |
| 28 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |
| 29 | The emphasis in the French version does not just come from the repetition of je l'aimais bien , which also occurs in the original , but rather from the fact that the repetition is labelled as repetition : elle répéta . |
| 30 | With this assumption his principle followed fairly simply , and later physicists — William Thomson and Rudolf Clausius — had problems in incorporating Carnot 's law into the new theory , where heat was motion of particles and was actually being converted into mechanical work and not just flowing through the engine . |