Example sentences of "[to-vb] not just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The flash that followed seemed to come not just from the magazine itself but from the whole width of the horizon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements . |
| 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 | Erm and in due course , they are hoping , that body is hoping to extend not just to independent schools but to all schools and be a design and technology education association for all schools . |
| 9 | ‘ Suddenly Souness had to start from the bottom and try to build not just from an injury-decimated side , but from one whose senior players were in the most part over 30 and past it . |
| 10 | Theodora was very much aware of his charm which seemed to stem not just from pleasant good looks but from a kind of inner confidence . |
| 11 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 12 | More , an orthodox chromosomal gene and a virus that is transmitted inside the host 's egg would agree in wanting the host to succeed not just in its courtship but in every detailed aspect of its life , down to being a loyal , doting parent and even grandparent . |
| 13 | Try to think not just of those , although they can u you can use those as guidelines . |
| 14 | The improvement in performance that occurs with training was held to depend not just on the strengthening of the association between the stimulus — word and the response — word but also on a reduction in the extent to which the various words tend to be confused . |
| 15 | ‘ It seems to change not just by the day but almost by the hour . ’ |
| 16 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 17 | The situation at Beida became tense as demonstrations were called to protest not just at the student 's death but the poor conditions of intellectuals in China , the lack of free speech and human rights , excessive bureaucracy in the party 's structure and rampant corruption within party echelons . |