Example sentences of "[modal v] not just [vb infin] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’ |
| 4 | You ca n't just use people like this though . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't just put things in the sky ! |