Example sentences of "[verb] not just a " 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 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 4 | Lunging forward with a net , he caught not just a leaf but a tiny fish as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 13 | So , the photo-sensitive cells lining it receive not just an impression of light or darkness , but a crude image of the scene . |
| 14 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 15 | As with every other technological innovation , they may attempt to protect their ‘ inventions ’ which means after altering the genes , they could slap a patent on it , making it possible to own not just an idea and a technique , but the matrix of a living animal . |
| 16 | Martin Potter boasted not just a manager , coach and partner in the shape of Peter Colbert , but an adviser , an agent , and occasional heavies and bureaucrats who hovered around him as if they were guarding the crown jewels . |
| 17 | When constraints are particularly heavy and pressing , though , teaching may become not just a matter of coping , which in some senses all teaching is , but of sheer survival . |
| 18 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 19 | Through the display hangar , NAM has become not just a local attraction and amenity , but has developed into a regional , if not national , venue . |
| 20 | Today , of course , the test of love between men would be their willingness to share not just a toothbrush but also a razor . |
| 21 | So she 's given you those to practise not just a C and then a K but show both as one making sort of one sound like in back and lock |
| 22 | That overriding concern is why we have to have not just a property tax but a new and different property tax that is fraught with novel and unpredictable difficulties . |
| 23 | But the rapport between us and the women in the group was instantaneous , probably because we share not just a language and culture but a common experience of racism . |
| 24 | In the hands of Althusser and Habermas , the critique of ideology becomes not just a basis for pouring scorn on the thinkers who have rationalized an exploitative economic and class system . |
| 25 | In closing , I want to take note of the familiar lament that science and technology have created not just a cornucopia but terrible dangers as well . |
| 26 | To both of them , the human sacrifice of 1914–18 created not just a deep loathing of war but also a determination that such sacrifice should not be in vain . |
| 27 | However , the positive side to the cosmic pattern is that you can find not just a fleeting romance but true love , if not your soulmate . |
| 28 | From time to time , consultancies must organise not just a display by a client but must organise an entire exhibition or show for many exhibitors are on behalf of their client . |
| 29 | For the Archbishop 's commissioners , partnership needed to mean not just a link-up between business and the public or voluntary sectors , but a conscious attempt to meet the powerlessness felt by the ‘ people in the street ’ ( p. 186 ) . |
| 30 | Like the newly-elected Prime Minister , with whom he shares not just a love of cricket , but a firm adherence to basic principles , a natural decency and a dogged belief in hard work , the England captain enjoys a challenge against the odds . |