Example sentences of "[verb] not just [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 12 | Korea had not just intensified the Cold War with , for example , analogies being drawn between the partitioned Korean peninsula and the divided nature of Germany ; it also placed an extra burden on American resources . |
| 13 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |
| 14 | The evidence they yield does not just quantify the token occurrence of existing category types , for the most part derived from intuition , but also suggests that the types themselves stand in need of revision so that the language as abstractly conceived by the linguist is brought into closer correspondence with the language as actually realized by the user . |
| 15 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 16 | According to director of software marketing , Dan Esterlin , Primrose arranges things using a peer-to-peer system and does not just partition the application once , but every time the application is run . |