Example sentences of "[verb] not just [prep] " 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 | The key to the approach though lies not just with the police but with the Northants diversion unit . |
| 3 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and erm justify long-term development needs not just in total , but by recognizing making a major contribution to total land use but also . |
| 6 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 7 | But another feature in the projects noted is that they have elements both of research and development in them , and the work has been pursued not just with one school but usually with several concurrently . |
| 8 | It is pursued not just in specially funded research institutes , but on a large scale in industry , and by private foundations and policy institutes . |
| 9 | This is happening not just in the ghettoes of American cities where intolerance has become institutionalised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 12 | It pays to concentrate not just on big names , but on the ‘ artists ’ , who are every bit as important to the overall texture of art ; on Lee Bontecou who was one of Leo Castelli 's most visible artists in the early 1960s — the only woman whom he represented — and who was a major inspiration to Eva Hesse ; on H. C. Westerman whom Donald Judd once described as ‘ one of the most interesting artists around ’ . |
| 13 | He had realised that the refinement of distress is that you are obliged to suffer not just for yourself , which is the easier part , but for others as well . |
| 14 | I would urge anybody thinking of commercial diving to benefit not just from my experience , but also from the dozens of other commercial divers I know and have heard from . |
| 15 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 16 | Criticism of Cossiga for heading the movement for constitutional reform in favour of an executive presidency had come not just from the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS-formerly the Communist Party ) but also from within the Christian Democratic ( DC ) party , notably from former Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , and from Ettore Gallo , who had retired as President of the Constitutional Court in July . |
| 17 | If Britain guarantees that the Hong Kong government 's financial reserves will be above a certain level come 1997 , and if the airport 's costs are below a certain level , and if Hong Kong neither raises taxes nor issues debt to pay for the airport , and if China has a say not just on the airport but also on other franchises Hong Kong grants and , come to think of it , on other ‘ important ’ matters — if all that is conceded , then Hong Kong can have its airport . |
| 18 | These matters are important because they explain how Pound and Eliot , who had campaigned as a team and would help each other for many years to come , radically differed not just in themes and attitudes ( of which something will be said hereafter ) but at this deep level , in the not altogether conscious interstices of their craft . |
| 19 | The flash that followed seemed to come not just from the magazine itself but from the whole width of the horizon . |
| 20 | The award is aimed at group leaders who top-rope parties on small crags and will concentrate not just on safety but on crag ethics and etiquette , an emphasis on the problems outlined above . |
| 21 | These agencies helped not just with marketing but with information . |
| 22 | Examples of this outward expansion , combined with an increasing centralization , are confined not just to sites dependent on a single main road , as at Brough-on-Fosse , but also to sites developing at road junctions as in the case of Great Chesterford . |
| 23 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 24 | But we will focus not just on the City but also training investment and industry . |
| 25 | In PCT the individual interacts not just with the world but with the world as he/she interprets it . |
| 26 | One of these , due to Wilson ( 1975 : 151 ) , will have to suffice here , and holds not just for truth-conditional semantics but for virtually any semantic theory independent of pragmatics . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 29 | The value of each tactic is considered not just for the problem itself , but as an approach that might be used again on a future occasion so that the person can learn how better to cope with future problems ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |