Example sentences of "can [adv] just [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't just ignore the fact that people have been cured — all right , I agree , they are unorthodox methods . |
| 2 | " You ca n't just threaten a man like that , " the ex-soldier said . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't just make a performance of everything you have seen . |
| 4 | I mean Forest are pulling everybody behind the ball and you know they ca n't just sling the ball through . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 6 | So we ca n't just realise the asset , dash out and build a house through a housing association because we have this crucial land problem . |
| 7 | ’ We ca n't just deliver the phetam now we know it 's stolen . |
| 8 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 9 | It 's quite obvious as regards the longer-term that we must think in terms of today 's starting point , we ca n't just introduce the market and cease all state regulation . |
| 10 | But I ca n't just play the pawn any more . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't just dig a hole and bury them . |
| 12 | I ca n't just exorcize a person because he tells a lie . " |
| 13 | So erm and I , I ca n't just take a flexi-day because I 'm already , I 've already got leave to use . |
| 14 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 15 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't just let a human take over . |
| 17 | Er and when nobody is there I ca n't just put a tape machine on the desk and leave it running ! |
| 18 | You ca n't just put a speed hump down everywhere . |
| 19 | We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception . |
| 20 | We should look seriously at such ideas , because , unless we say that everybody should be in work at the same time , we can not just forget the pool of unemployed . |
| 21 | They can not just assume the researcher role and use students as experimental subjects , observing how they learn under varying conditions with detached interest to satisfy an intellectual curiosity . |