Example sentences of "[modal v] not just [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Er and so think er not we should not just have a policy for the we should put some money towards it as well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Enoch Powell derided the bill as an absurdity : you could n't just invent a second chamber . |
| 6 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 7 | One could n't just get a campaign up and running overnight — although the recession bit both ways , so at least there would be space available in the media for short-term bookings . |
| 8 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 9 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 10 | He would n't just kill the guy until he was sure of his next move . |
| 11 | You ca n't just ignore the fact that people have been cured — all right , I agree , they are unorthodox methods . |
| 12 | Erm , we ca n't just ignore the responsibilities that we 've been given . |
| 13 | " You ca n't just threaten a man like that , " the ex-soldier said . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't just make a performance of everything you have seen . |
| 15 | I mean Forest are pulling everybody behind the ball and you know they ca n't just sling the ball through . |
| 16 | Dance music changes fast , so you ca n't just stay the same , but the dance music audience has little patience with those who ca n't find a new trick that is just as magical as the old one . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 18 | So we ca n't just realise the asset , dash out and build a house through a housing association because we have this crucial land problem . |
| 19 | ’ We ca n't just deliver the phetam now we know it 's stolen . |
| 20 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 21 | It 's quite obvious as regards the longer-term that we must think in terms of today 's starting point , we ca n't just introduce the market and cease all state regulation . |
| 22 | But I ca n't just play the pawn any more . |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't just dig a hole and bury them . |
| 24 | We ca n't just reduce the struggles of half the population to a demand for money . |
| 25 | I ca n't just exorcize a person because he tells a lie . " |
| 26 | Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work ! |
| 27 | So erm and I , I ca n't just take a flexi-day because I 'm already , I 've already got leave to use . |
| 28 | And these days you ca n't just take the speedometer out and fiddle the numbers back like you used to ten years ago . |
| 29 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 30 | I ca n't just let a human take over . |