Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room . |
| 2 | A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head , but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling . |
| 3 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 4 | Yes you have to careful with er that a holiday does n't just does n't become an expensive way of being uncomfortable you know |
| 5 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 6 | One possible answer is that a quasar produces not just one beam , or one pair of oppositely-directed beams , but multiple beams . |
| 7 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 8 | Emily Lloyd , Whoopi Goldberg , daryl Hannah and Whitney Houston were amoung the dozens of rich and famous thronging the stage at Nelson Mandela 's 70th birthday party — an event shocking not just because of the numbers of celebrities involved , but because of the sheer diversity of its star-studded line-up . |
| 9 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |