Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must adapt to suit the environment — the environment ca n't change just for you ! |
| 2 | If you press this one , if you press record it wo n't because there 's a tape in but if you just press press record automatic and you press record and the play button but you ca n't press just the record button . |
| 3 | ca n't , you ca n't accuse just Jean of corruption , they 've got to they 've got to accuse the development corporation of corruption as well . |
| 4 | People who ca n't scuttle just ca n't be trusted . |
| 5 | I ca n't squeeze just on the |
| 6 | ‘ He ca n't have just disappeared , ’ Nell said . |
| 7 | You ca n't have just one , you have to have both … |
| 8 | He ca n't have just disappeared like that , oh God what if he 's gone upstairs and in the middle of the night |
| 9 | They ca n't have just turfed you out ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm very sorry , madam , ’ I said , ‘ my sister will be very angry with me if you complain , but I ca n't play just now . |
| 11 | If you ca n't find just what you want , there is plenty of scope for fiddling with the basic plans . |
| 12 | And all of them can only do just carry on , the money 's not there , it 's not there is it ? |
| 13 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 14 | Although it can choose whether to sell bonds or Treasury bills , it can not decide just who is to purchase them — banks/discount houses , the general public or foreigners . |
| 15 | I am afraid I can not bear just yet to go back to Baldersdale . |
| 16 | We can not do just as we like because we are limited , or constrained , by ( i ) the amount of money , or capital , we have ; ( ii ) the inventions , or technology , available ; ( iii ) the space , or land , available ; ( iv ) the resources , such as fuel or timber , or existing roads and buildings ; ( v ) the desires of other human beings which may conflict with ours . |
| 17 | He can not do just as he pleases . |
| 18 | Under the act , they claim , they can not extinguish just some of the rights . |
| 19 | You are much more likely to go for old pine , or oak , tough lacquer or vinyl — at least for several years , but there is no reason why these can not work just as well and create a feeling of their own . |
| 20 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 21 | We can not see just what we like . |
| 22 | At present , a multinational company can not run just one fund for all its staff ; an employee moving from Britain to Spain has to join a different fund . |
| 23 | At best they provide an objective digest of certain features of a map , which some people can probably detect just as well by scanning the map but others may not . |
| 24 | No one can really say just where Palma Nova stops and Magalluf begins , they just sort of merge into one another and the sandy beach runs the length of both resorts . |
| 25 | One can often choose just a few significant words for the accompaniment , and avoid the rest . |
| 26 | This very anxiety can unfortunately cause just the rift they dread because people around find it very hard to deal with the ‘ clinging behaviour ’ that often results from this worry about separation . |
| 27 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 28 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 29 | If your drill and driver bits manage to hide in every nook and cranny of your tool box , and you can never find just the size you want , when you want it , perhaps it 's time you got organised , with a set of drill and driver bits in their very own case . |