Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I might not just want it there . |
| 2 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
| 5 | Similarly , you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here . |
| 6 | You should not just say , oh there 's good I 'll phone him now because you need some valuable information . |
| 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 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 9 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | If you can not just go along and say no we 're not borrowing and live within your budget as you are saying . |
| 12 | Organic farming is like wild gardening — you can not just stop all planning and let nature take over . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | You can not just say ‘ Thank you and push off . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 17 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 18 | So Commander Blake we should not just offer a stick saying that we we are n't going to help you until we start dismantling your military programme , we should offer carrots too , do you agree ? |
| 19 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 20 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 21 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | But we can not just announce that this is the case , e.g. with our beliefs about our sensory states . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |