Example sentences of "[noun] can not just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A cold ca n't just disappear . |
| 2 | I believe that the revolution can not just come and go but must be permanent , and it is our duty to further it . |
| 3 | ‘ These people ca n't just blow in with their grand illusions about what they can do in Northern Ireland , with this ‘ big brother ’ attitude that America can solve everyone 's problems . |
| 4 | Obviously a married woman ca n't just get up from her chair at that time of the evening and announce that she 's going out . |
| 5 | You ask why the CAA ca n't just accept FAA standards ? |
| 6 | This forces Parliament to consider , for example , the balance between housing subsidies and housing tax allowances , and a ceiling is put on the value of the total — tax relief can not just grow without anyone noticing . |
| 7 | Waldegrave can not just walk away from the plan to install in the LEP tunnel the Large Hadron Collider , part of whose promise is success in the hunt for the Higgs boson . |
| 8 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 9 | The Irish League can not just wash their hands of the matter , as Morton McKnight seems to have done . |
| 10 | It is supposed that thoughts can not just come and go , but need a person to think them . |