Example sentences of "[pron] can not just [verb] " in BNC.

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1 If , on the other hand , I want to count how many working-class students there are in the college , I can not just go ahead and do it .
2 If you can not just go along and say no we 're not borrowing and live within your budget as you are saying .
3 Organic farming is like wild gardening — you can not just stop all planning and let nature take over .
4 So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the
5 You can not just say ‘ Thank you and push off . ’
6 Thus , you can not just take any necessary action depending on the error and return to where you were because BBCBASIC(Z80) no longer knows where you were .
7 You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance .
8 But we can not just announce that this is the case , e.g. with our beliefs about our sensory states .
9 Their intention is to convince readers that genetics will have a powerful influence on their lives and that scientists can not be trusted to protect them : ‘ We can not just sit by as passive worshippers or victims ’ .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 One thing is certain : we can not just amble on and it is going to cost us dearly — £40 000 million according to the National Water Council and others .
13 When we need to forgive someone else we know we can not just forget it right away , but we can certainly say it is not on file against them any more .
14 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 .
15 We can not just do nothing
16 We can not just do nothing , when it takes so little of our time to make our voice heard .
17 Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in .
18 One needs a Porter-style analysis to discover exactly what type of investment and competitive strategy is needed to achieve or maintain market share or competitive position ; one can not just assume that any type of investment in capacity in areas of high market share will lead to future success .
19 Not all sentences are interesting , relevant , or suitable ; one can not just put any sentence after another and hope that it will mean something .
20 But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that .
21 One can not just dig it out of language as I thought once . ’
22 They can not just choose to hurt you , you have to give them the chance ( for example by joining in activities like those listed above ) — so do n't !
23 They can not just boot off somewhere without booking .
24 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 .
25 It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive .
26 He can not just divorce you for no reason . ’
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