Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airtours THE WORLD IN ITS LAP Rumours of a price war are unlikely to take the wind out of the sails of a tour operator that has not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but increased market share as well |
| 2 | He has not just found a role for himself , which was something he had agonized over for years , but has used his position to lead an assault on the ills of modern society ; to try to alter people 's basic thinking , not just in an effort to improve their lives , but to persuade them of the need to preserve the planet for future generations . |
| 3 | But I do n't understand why she has n't just earned the money and gone off somewhere . |
| 4 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 5 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 6 | It is occasionally the case that a defendant will wish not just to have the plaintiff examined , but that tests should be administered by their medical expert . |
| 7 | Renting property means not just renting a place to live in , or to run a business from . |
| 8 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 9 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 10 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 11 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 12 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 13 | By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community . |
| 14 | As the Wasp Junior is supercharged you do not just push the lever to the stop for fear of bursting it , so I relied on Tony to limit the movement of my left hand , revelling in the swelling thunder of the fifteen-litre engine and the surging acceleration as the nose reared under its power . |
| 15 | Do not just plan a time plus/minus an allowance for wind . |
| 16 | The reason for this is that you do not just calculate the length and breadth of the pool , but the various areas that are going to accommodate marginal shelves as well . |
| 17 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 18 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 19 | But he did n't just try the handle . |
| 20 | Mother , I sensed , did n't just know a little about Mr Broadhurst , she knew all about him . |
| 21 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 22 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 23 | I do n't know why they do n't just open the gates and let us all out now . ’ |
| 24 | No , I do n't just near the cabbage . |
| 25 | We do n't just deliver a lot of airplanes . |
| 26 | We do n't just want a merging of our unions either . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't just want a reprieve for limestone but for other freight and for passenger services . |
| 28 | And we do n't just want the big bulls . |
| 29 | In other words , we do n't just discard the suggestion . |
| 30 | But when you see it like that you do n't just distort the world , you distort yourself . |