Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean not just trying but if you if you get chosen to play the violin it means practising and practising and staying with it so that you become a good violin player . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 4 | ‘ I did not just hear ! ’ she retorted . |
| 5 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 6 | Were they , you know in , general you know not just talking about riveters , but in general for the the work the workforce ? |
| 7 | You did not just give me my money for passing ! |
| 8 | Do it again to make sure you did not just let go of the stick in fright ! |
| 9 | It must be remembered that you do not just want someone whose opinion is going to carry weight but someone who is also going to provide persuasive evidence both in their report and at trial . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ But you do not just march into a druggist 's and demand atropine , ’ objected Auguste . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They would walk in the dusk by the water , listening to the lapping of the tide against the boats , and there would be someone there , perhaps , whom she would understand , appeal to more than his usual friends , for she could do things like deal with electricity and mend things , and she had not always lived in England , that was interesting , and she did not just giggle and think about clothes , and he would find her a relief to talk to , this rather exceptional , different person , someone with imagination . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | By this we do not Just mean that many people believe that the system is unjust . |
| 16 | We do not just mean convenience foods , but the convenience of eating a meal in relation to the time allowed , and the situation . |
| 17 | By these we do not just mean that lots of people do research and take time over it . |
| 18 | We do not just consider Mendel 's theory in isolation . |
| 19 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 20 | We have signed a treaty to agree to that , but we have not just retained Polaris , with its enormous fire-power ; we have now decided to go on to Trident that has even greater firepower than Polaris . |
| 21 | Words articulate our experience of things , they do not just express or reflect it ; they give form to what , without language and other sign-systems , would merely be a chaotic and undifferentiated jumble of ideas ; instead of things determining the meaning of words , words determine the meaning of things . |
| 22 | As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos . |
| 23 | They do not just generate data but enter into collaboration in the continuous monitoring of classroom activity and its effects . |
| 24 | They do not just know the ropes : they make the ropes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 27 | ( 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 . |
| 28 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |
| 29 | He does not just open his eyes and look and there it is . |
| 30 | But as we can see , he does not just blame Hegel here , for according to Levinas ontology itself is the problem . |