Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should not just trust people to get on with the task of caring for vulnerable children . |
| 2 | It would n't enter his head that I might not just kill Vecchi out of hand . |
| 3 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 4 | You could n't just use repeats and codas because he does n't really use them . ’ |
| 5 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Would n't just like Hartley 's jam would you . |
| 9 | they would n't just accept rent reductions from |
| 10 | Y equals log X squared you ca n't just picture log X. |
| 11 | You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Instead of negotiating a child will look at confrontation — but in real life you ca n't just zap people . ’ |
| 13 | If you care about changing women 's lives you 've got to consider that Clare , you ca n't just throw Mrs Ramsay out — ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't just pull ideas out of the air . |
| 15 | ‘ But Robyn , we ca n't just leave things … ’ |
| 16 | Now , stumbling through the close packed trees in the patchy moonlight , Louise panted , ‘ Jim … what are we going to do ? … we ca n't just leave Brett back there with that monster . ’ |
| 17 | Ca n't just sort judge |
| 18 | assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off . |
| 19 | So obviously if er if Mississippi wants some federal money for a project they 're not gon na get it unless there are civil rights provisions built into the , into the project that is , you know , you ca n't just give dole out to white people and refuse it to black people erm that there has to be equal opportunities and so on . |
| 20 | You ca n't just use people like this though . |
| 21 | And the fact he ca n't just accept things , he has to question things . |
| 22 | You ca n't just accept love and affection . |
| 23 | You ask why the CAA ca n't just accept FAA standards ? |
| 24 | You ca n't just let Henry be ill . |
| 25 | The company says you ca n't just sell technology alone to commercial accounts and its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of PCs and Macs and a whole lot of character terminals . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't just put things in the sky ! |
| 27 | Well you ca n't just put numbers down can you ? |
| 28 | I mean , you ca n't just hammer households , and leave them , I mean , even , even , even like er ju ju the judiciary , the courts , they 've all got televisions in their pl I mean surely , and that 's Crown property , by the way . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It will not just teach learners how to form the passive or reported speech , but also when and how to use them . |