Example sentences of "[vb past] not just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 2 | The conversion did not just affect the family transport . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | In the certificate the auditor did not just recite the clause : he specifically raised the methodology point . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had not just weathered the recession and the downturn in travel caused by the Gulf war , but actually increased market share . |