Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] not just [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 2 | When Flora Tristan , the French feminist and socialist , visited London in 1839 she noted not just the extent of prostitution but the complex ritualization of male debauchery . |
| 3 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 4 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 5 | But the rapport between us and the women in the group was instantaneous , probably because we share not just a language and culture but a common experience of racism . |
| 6 | Mixing soul , country and intelligent pop influences in their powerful acoustically-driven sound , they showed on the night that they had not just the songs but the conviction also to make an impact . |
| 7 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 8 | To complete unity it needs not just a flow of money from west to east but a sense of national solidarity . |
| 9 | Lunging forward with a net , he caught not just a leaf but a tiny fish as well . |
| 10 | So , the photo-sensitive cells lining it receive not just an impression of light or darkness , but a crude image of the scene . |
| 11 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 12 | When he urged the pieds noirs to give up integration , when he ordered the army to remain loyal , when he appealed to the FLN to lay down their arms and negotiate , he evoked not just the powers and responsibilities of his office but the confidence that they should have in the person of himself , General de Gaulle . |
| 13 | He argued that though historical materialism had satisfactorily explained the forms and conditions of human reality it had never established theoretically the validity of its own existence , never shown how it constituted not just the substance of reality but its logical form as well . |
| 14 | Like the newly-elected Prime Minister , with whom he shares not just a love of cricket , but a firm adherence to basic principles , a natural decency and a dogged belief in hard work , the England captain enjoys a challenge against the odds . |