Example sentences of "[modal v] not just [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 5 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 6 | You should not just say , oh there 's good I 'll phone him now because you need some valuable information . |
| 7 | Similarly , you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here . |
| 8 | Responsibility for mountain searches should not just lie with the local police . |
| 9 | However , it should not just act as a check-list but should relate facts about a country to the expatriate 's new life style . |
| 10 | But her appointment should not just have been a token . |
| 11 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 12 | Group pick up is very handy , if you 're with a large bunch of people in a large office , you can get together and say , ‘ Right , why do n't we answer everybody 's telephones if they 're not there , let's not just leave them ringing ’ , Okay , so you get together and you ask me and say , ‘ Right , this , this , this , this extension ’ , it could be up to 40 extensions , ‘ We all want to be in the same group pick up ’ , so what happens is the phone rings , but another one rings . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's not just stand here then , ’ said Santa , ‘ Let's have a scrumptious Christmas lunch . ’ |
| 14 | Well , I might not just want it there . |
| 15 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 16 | This led George Klein , of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden , to suggest ( Nature , vol 294 , p 213 ) that these translocations might not just activate the antibody genes on the normal rearranged DNA — they might also activate a proto-oncogene on chromosome 8 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 19 | The letter to a friend left behind after a move could contain thoughts about the way the family have been treated by immigration officials ; the really interesting letter would not just recount memories , but also hint at the dreams and fears , the expectations and terrors of what lies ahead . |
| 20 | She would not just sit there and let him do this to her ! |
| 21 | But to stay , to lie in his arms and each time know that he was dreaming of another woman , would not just break her heart but shatter it . |
| 22 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 23 | The paper would challenge authority , never ‘ preach ’ to its readers , and would not just publish political tracts of the left . |
| 24 | Jim Murphy , NUS Scotland president , said that a campaign encouraging students to demonstrate would not just include placard-waving but discos and possibly even classes in the history of demonstrations . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | With this policy of constant development and improvement , it 's clear that with Heathrow , Gatwick and Stansted , London will not just lead Paris , Frankfurt and Amsterdam — our position as the number one international airport group in the world will be in no doubt . |
| 28 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 29 | But this network will not just serve the big occasions . |
| 30 | 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 ! |