Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 2 | Is it correct to claim , as Marsh does , that aggression is ‘ the inflicting of physical hurt ’ with its associated aim of ‘ subduing or achieving dominance over a rival ’ ( 1978 : 33 ) or should one follow Eibl-Eibesfeldt 's broader definition and classify behaviour as aggressive ‘ if it leads to another party 's being hurt ; this includes not just physical hurt ( injury or destruction ) but any kind of hurt , including annoyance , taunts or insults ’ ( 1978 : 29 ) ? |
| 3 | Drawing up the contract — this states not just the price , but all the terms and conditions of the transaction . |
| 4 | This applies not just to the technical side , but also to information policies ’ . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the same seems to be true of at least parts of the apparatus of cellular machinery whereby DNA replicates itself , and this applies not just to the cells of advanced creatures like ourselves and amoebas , but also to relatively more primitive creatures like bacteria and blue-green algae . |
| 6 | The new building , opened in 1876 , cost £62,000 ( approximately £2,000,000 ) but this included not just the church but the organ , the famous Lincoln Tower , the land and the various subsidiary buildings . |
| 7 | This did not just happen by itself . |
| 8 | Most authoritative commentators on British politics in the period between the Reform Acts , 1832 and 1867 did not just describe and explain our politics . |
| 9 | Why do stereotypes like this persist not just in folklinguistics but also in modern scientific linguistics ? |
| 10 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 11 | This does not just mean interviews with a therapist , but also appropriate contact with nursing and other ward staff . |
| 12 | This does not just mean ‘ frequent ’ : exceptions are perceived as ‘ odd ’ , but are not necessarily disapproved of , sanctioned , etc . |
| 13 | This does not just include design and quality engineers : everyone within the company must be aware to some extent . |
| 14 | This does not just mean clever things like the expert system in the White House conference room , but simple things such as the British postcodes for the early 1980s and the digitized boundaries of old GIS systems . |
| 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 | Across to the er , the left , erm , can you erm , create a file linking formula , that links not just one cell , but a whole range of cells . |
| 17 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 18 | One minstrel was supposed to have not just glorified his master but saved his life as well : |
| 19 | The tout has other costs to cover , too : these include not just his time , but also the capital cost of his initial outlay and the psychic cost of being a social outcast . |
| 20 | That sounds not just splendid , but logical as well . |
| 21 | Just for a moment , suppose that it had been proved beyond doubt that reincarnation was a fact and we all lived not just once but many times . |
| 22 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 23 | Staffing could legitimately include personal assistants competent to undertake not just secretarial duties but also the preliminary screening of constituents ' problems , any necessary investigative donkey-work and the drafting of correspondence . |
| 24 | And that applies not just to young people — too many of whom are still dismissive of safe sex — but the parents who worry that their teenagers will become infected with the virus . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | In the neo-elitist view it is important to study not just how the issues which become major political conflicts are resolved , but also which issues never make the political agenda at all or are prevented from reaching any decision when they do emerge as issues . |
| 27 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 28 | The Italian movement for democratic psychiatry proved so attractive and drew such European interest purely because in its attempts to place services fairly and squarely in the community it acknowledged that it was essential to involve not just health and social services , but also employment , leisure , housing , the trade union movement , and the whole panoply of services . |
| 29 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
| 30 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |