Example sentences of "[verb] not just [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those responsible are interested in an effective total process not just an effective interview and all the stages in the process interact . |
| 2 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 3 | As The Very Model of a Man is full of angels and story-tellers — two essential ingredients of ‘ magic realism ’ — there is clearly a strong hint that Jacobson is attempting to rewrite not just the Bible but our contemporary literary orthodoxies , which are in danger of assuming the status of a surrogate religion . |
| 4 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 5 | Yet India contains not just the forces of fragmentation , but also reserves of strength . |
| 6 | Just as the white-coated doctors in hospitals symbolize the clean and purifying nature of the healer , so the dark uniform of the police symbolizes not just the force identity , but also the presence of the avenger , who purifies through retribution rather than by cure . |
| 7 | A more recent approach emphasises not just the relationship between the leader and others but also stresses the changing nature of this relationship . |
| 8 | Traders do well to be careful in describing their merchandise for the section may catch not just the deliberate liar but also the honest trader who carelessly misdescribes his goods . |
| 9 | Lunging forward with a net , he caught not just a leaf but a tiny fish as well . |
| 10 | De Gaulle believed that the Cold War , which had frozen not just the superpowers but the rest of the world in a paralyzing confrontation between two blocs , was coming to an end and that , within each bloc , the hegemony of the respective superpower was dissolving . |
| 11 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 12 | Thus , we need to know not just the shape of the pre- and post-distributions but also the location of families within the distributions . |
| 13 | This was true of the declared intention to establish not just a common commercial policy once the transitional period had been concluded , but also of objectives which were to be sought during the transitional phase : a common transport policy , free movement of workers , and a common agricultural policy . |
| 14 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 15 | It 's a software product designed to run on either PC or Macintosh computers , and offers not just the facility to record , but also to analyse your training performances over several sports simultaneously . |
| 16 | The original position seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good , but a liberal , individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path , provided it does not interfere with the rights of others . |
| 17 | Efforts should be made to preserve not just the facades but a substantial part of the interior as well , and possibly the whole building . |
| 18 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 19 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 20 | Our special guest Adam Faith , he 's in Alfie , which is at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal on the twenty eighth of March next year and the box office has just opened so can actually er go there to see not just a performance I think , not just a play , but something of an event . |
| 21 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 22 | In its largest and perhaps most significant perspective , deconstruction involves not just a critique of the grounds of knowledge in general , but specifically of the grounds of Occidental knowledge . |
| 23 | The type of cultural intervention envisaged by the Committee involves not just a preaching mission , but also active cultural transformation of a kind which requires a certain degree of " love " , or a liberal and sympathetic attachment not only to " folk " cultures but even to urban industrial cultures : " The ambassadors of poetry must be humble , they must learn to call nothing common or unclean — not even the local dialect , the clatter of the factory , or the smoky pall of our industrial centres " ( 238/260 ) . |
| 24 | But as it turned out the solution was to prove one of the biggest problems of all , mainly because Taurus aimed to accommodate not just the users in the shape of the institutions and individuals which buy and sell shares , but also those with a vested interest in the existing system — the banks who make considerable money from their roles as registrars and custodians . |
| 25 | By Nov. 4 Demirel was reportedly contemplating a temporary alliance to this end , to include not just the SHP but also the Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party ( RP ) . |
| 26 | Where the case is apt for a Ghosh direction , the whole test must be given not just the first part : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 ( CA ) and Brennan [ 1990 ] Crim LR 118 ( CA ) ( on handling ) . |
| 27 | In a poem like the ‘ Express ’ I believe we are dealing with a very involved , indeed fanatical , view of the journey , movement and stately presence of a train which seems to overpower not just the author himself but also the very universe and natural world in which it exists . |
| 28 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 29 | If you are losing children do spend time with the dissatisfied parents to explore not just the event that has brought the situation to a head but dig deep for other areas of dissatisfaction , hostility or conflict . |
| 30 | It is therefore , Sartre argues , our historical task to make it known , promoting not just the historical process as such , but also the general recognition whereby the plurality of the meanings of individual histories can be seen to combine to make one history , with one meaning — the ‘ Truth of humanity ’ ( I , 822 ) . |