Example sentences of "[verb] not just by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat , but by a deep artificial lake . |
| 2 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 3 | These awards are won not just by those responsible for export sales — although their contribution is very important — but by every employee in the business . |
| 4 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 5 | The damage can be limited not just by a vow of silence from the government 's critics , but also by intelligent fiscal action from the government itself . |
| 6 | As direct eye contact is established , then held , her pupils are dilated not just by the half-light , but by adrenalin . |
| 7 | They were attended not just by journalists but by senior civil servants , foreign diplomats , and — seated to the right of the General — the prime minister and the other members of the government . |
| 8 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 9 | The demand for health care ( and the resources it consumes ) is shaped not just by patients but by a million clinical decisions of doctors and other professionals . |
| 10 | After so much huffing and puffing , inaction now would be seen not just by Serbs but by other potential ethnic-cleansers as a green light to press ahead . |
| 11 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 12 | More use could also be made of educational techniques to improve interpersonal social skills and increase levels of educational attainment , particularly as many long-term attenders are handicapped not just by their mental disorder but also by poor schooling and impaired learning ability . |
| 13 | ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said . |
| 14 | ‘ Any development of a deep water fishery will be long-term and will be dictated not just by the availability of fish stocks but , equally importantly , by an identified customer market . ’ |
| 15 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 16 | This will be affected not just by economic factors , but by demographic and social factors as well . |
| 17 | This will be affected not just by the amount of resources devoted to health , but also by the efficiency of the service . |
| 18 | He would be defended not just by the best lawyers in Egypt but probably by the best lawyers in France . |
| 19 | Any regulatory system will be judged not just by its ability to provide a ‘ fair , rate of return for investors and ‘ fair ’ prices for consumers , but on its ability to avoid under-investment . |
| 20 | ( The meaning of symbol in religion can be undermined not just by literalism , but by evacuating the content of the symbol , making it " just symbolism " . ) |
| 21 | His habitual silence at Court was probably caused not just by caution and disapproval but by shyness . |
| 22 | The amendment failed , being opposed not just by the Government but surprisingly also by the SDP spokesman , Mr Robert MacLennan , who said that ‘ senior Ministers who have the duty to authorise interception of communications must have a very wide — in many cases , almost unlimited — discretion ’ . |
| 23 | People are influenced not just by political parties or candidates but also by national , regional and local considerations . |
| 24 | The latter is certainly played with great energy although even such a generally obvious piece such as this would have benefitted from heightened sensitivity : Gershwin was , after all , influenced not just by the vibrant colours of the tropics but by their warmth as well . |
| 25 | But groups of people are identified not just by language and food , but by location , appearance , kinship , mythology , tradition , custom , music , clothing , symbols , rituals and all the details of everyday life , and all these characteristics serve to unite as well as divide them . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems to change not just by the day but almost by the hour . ’ |
| 27 | I think those 10th- and 11th-century sculptors were motivated not just by piety but also by a certain competitive spirit : if a church was finer than the one in the next village , more pilgrims would surely pause there . |
| 28 | Form is made perceptible against a background of existing literary form , and the function of a device is determined not just by the structural hierarchy of a particular work , but by its place in the literary system as a whole . |
| 29 | The consumer boom was fuelled not just by the falling savings ratio at a time when economic growth allowed incomes to rise strongly , but also by ( a ) tax cuts , especially in the budgets of 1987 and 1988 and ( b ) readily available credit — particularly in the aftermath of the deregulation of the City in 1986 , known as Big Bang . |