Example sentences of "[vb base] not just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well . |
| 4 | In other words , you concentrate not just on what 's repressed in id , but on the structure of the ego as well , and the superego , and the course of nature part of it comes out in the book as told us that Woodrow Wilson had a tremendous superego in the form of his identification with his father , who he further identified with God , I mean , if I come over very critical indeed , and therefore , his own ego was identified with Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 6 | In that partnerships depend not just on technical or logistical arrangements but also personal commitment for their success they may be thought to resemble matrimony . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 9 | The result of this decision necessitates that tribunals look not just at the nature of the offence but also at the severity or leniency of the punishment . |
| 10 | But this revival of national awareness is happening I believe not just in Germany . |
| 11 | You go not just for the rides ( one of the most popular , Earthquake , puts you in San Francisco just as the Big One hits ) but for the chance to see how filmmakers , animators and special effects wizards all conspire to create the magic of film . |
| 12 | The Minister should tell the House that he is prepared to go to the Treasury and argue not just for increases that provide price protection , but that he will start to look at the experience of those in the bottom two fifths of the pensioner population and make arrangements to do something significantly better for them . |
| 13 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 14 | Why do stereotypes like this persist not just in folklinguistics but also in modern scientific linguistics ? |
| 15 | Their advantages come not just through enhanced examination success — the grammar schools achieved that . |
| 16 | In this chapter we will consider how social inequalities occur not just between social groups in Britain but also between different areas . |
| 17 | have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things . |