Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] just [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Marx 's famous dictum in the opening page of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte is not structuralist in Althusser 's sense : ‘ Men make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ’ ( Marx , 1977 , p. 300 ) .
2 Both pulls are strong and theories which purport to reconcile them tend to be fragile , even though they capture a stout commonsense conviction that , as Marx put it , ‘ Men make their own history but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves . ’
3 We think that a coherent radical pluralism can be constructed on the basis of a humanism which accepts , as Marx put it , that human beings ‘ make their own history , but they do not make it just as they please ; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 300 ) .
4 M. You ca n't collect them just because of that .
5 Yes you think I ca n't see you just cos you 're behind me .
6 He does n't drop them just because they do n't buy .
7 Yes , that sounded plausible : he would n't take it just because it was offered to him on a plate .
8 Do n't ignore it just because at times it seems impossible to deal with .
9 Well they ca n't pick him just because they like him .
10 Find people who will do the job well — do n't pick them just because they are there .
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