Example sentences of "we [vb mod] not just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 4 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 . |