Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] not just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 2 | Of course , we hope that you will not just browse through our book in a bookshop , as you may well be doing now , but will buy and use it ! |
| 3 | The consequence is that we can not just suppose that the text has been wrenched from its interdictal context and left unchanged , except for the addition of per omnia . |
| 4 | If you can not just go along and say no we 're not borrowing and live within your budget as you are saying . |
| 5 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 6 | But we can not just announce that this is the case , e.g. with our beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 7 | Caspar was shouting to her not to struggle , because it would only mean she would sink quicker , but Fenella was struggling fiercely , because she could not just give in . |
| 8 | ‘ We shall break the historic habit because we shall not just get elected tomorrow to clear up the mess , we are going to get re-elected at the next general election as well , ’ he said . |