Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 2 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 3 | Troopies did n't just sprout of their own accord . |
| 4 | The A-Z told me that the gardens off the alley belonged to the houses on Lee Metford Road and there seemed no good reason why Nevil had not just driven straight there . |
| 5 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 6 | Ironically , on the day when the knives were out for Taylor , his main support came not just from the man he took over from in July 1990 but also from Terry Venables , a potential successor . |
| 7 | The play would be comprehensible to anyone , he stressed , as the narrative thrust came not just from the script in Gaelic , English and the north-east 's own dialect , but from music , dance , vision and conversation . |
| 8 | The General and Municipal union 's white collar section ( MATSA ) has started an experimental recruitment campaign aimed not just at " non-standard " workers who are part-time and temporary but also at the self-employed . |
| 9 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 10 | The crisis occurred not just in the old industries such as steel and shipbuilding but in artificial fibres , electrical goods and , par excellence , motor manufacture . |
| 11 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 12 | Awareness of the distinction did not just disappear . |
| 13 | Occasionally occupying a perch not a million miles from The Black Crowes and unafraid to cross the bridge from ‘ metal ’ to ‘ mayhem ’ , Newspeak are creating a fusion nicked from the frankly , ‘ heavier ’ stalls of the pop market and the kind of tunes that you could probably whistle if your eardrums had n't just been blown away . |
| 14 | Diego Maradona of Argentina carried not just his team but the aspirations of a poor , struggling nation on his broad shoulders . |
| 15 | In case of doubt , Justinian ruled that these provisions applied not just to dispositions charged on the heir , but also to trusts charged on legatees and trust beneficiaries . |
| 16 | These agencies helped not just with marketing but with information . |
| 17 | Jesus came not just to forgive and to cleanse , but to break the power of sin |
| 18 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 19 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 20 | But tonight , after the dancing and the cheers , Miguelito did n't just slip away . |
| 21 | The Crown Prosecution Service did not just consider whether a bare prima facie case was enough , but whether there was a proper chance of conviction on reliable evidence . |
| 22 | Guy Sterne did n't just avoid seeing his family , he did n't like talking about them either . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 25 | The hostility of the FA arose not just from a lack of commercial sense but from a more profound belief that gambling was wrong . |
| 26 | In the past , with the economy in deep recession , strikes by Solidarity threatened not just the government but Poland 's reforms . |
| 27 | What we have to see is that Christ died not just as a self sacrifice not just because of injustice but he died as the atonement , to pay the price , for our sin . |
| 28 | Poor harvests increased food prices to pressure budgets barely adequate at most times , while seriously deficient harvests brought not just high prices but real scarcity , and for some of the poor absolute want . |
| 29 | ‘ In my day , ’ she was saying , ‘ New Year 's Eve was a family evening , young people did n't just suit themselves . |
| 30 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |