Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] just " in BNC.

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1 This involves getting the aircraft into an attitude with the tail-wheel or skid just off the ground .
2 Do not shake hands in a limp manner or use just the tips of the fingers as this gives the impression you are a weak character .
3 Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper .
4 Whatever the situation in which you find yourself living alone ; whether your husband or wife has left you or the children have left home ; whether your husband or wife or elderly parent has died or your flatmate has left ; whether you are starting college or a new job or have just decided to leave the family home , you must accept and make the very best of your new life .
5 CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement .
6 She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile .
7 If you are in the grip of an addiction , suffering from a total block ( PUN ! ) or have just mastered all other versions of the game then look no further .
8 This applies whether you are just rearranging a room , thinking of buying some new items , or have just moved in and are starting from scratch .
9 Well have you really or have just made it up ?
10 And nowhere was that place just out of reach
11 They steam through two strident , intelligent covers of songs by Erasure that show just how great Clarke and Bell 's debt to Abba has always been .
12 She usually assumed that look just before he succeeded in reducing her to tears .
13 Wherever the conditions for life are difficult , we find , typically , that the number of species is low ; and so it is in the world 's great deserts that lie just outside the wet equatorial regions , in Africa , Central Asia , North America and Australia .
14 The perithecia of these species have long , often multicellular ‘ horns ’ that originate just below the openings of the perithecium .
15 Jane also pointed out that Pamela has the ideal figure for trousers and when shopping for skirts , she should choose straight styles that end just below or above the knee .
16 It was also sad that no English spinner had been seen throughout the rubber , and that both sides blatantly and cynically ignored the ruling about bowling 90 overs in a day , so that play just continued until the light faded every day of the series ; those two factors left many people fearful for the game 's future .
17 In other words , it will be those that do just what the grumblers demand — cutting imports , using local suppliers , doing R&D on the spot — that will be most threatening to General Motors , Ford , Volkswagen , Peugeot and Fiat .
18 It was one of those long drawn-out Latin bums , the ones that start just above the knees and peter out somewhere round about the coccyx .
19 Not to mention all the other expenses that arise just when you can least cope .
20 What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well .
21 For just £15 you can give them a set of springs that take just an hour or two to fit under each key and make the keyboard so much bouncier .
22 Thus today 's miners often work lodes that contain just I gram of tin oxide , known as black tin , for every kilogram of rock .
23 Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ .
24 Back at the scene of the burglary , I can remember thinking next , ‘ Oh well , I suppose I can re-wrap some of the parcels that have just been torn open ; I suppose I could use cash instead for some of the presents that have gone ; there is some way that I can cope with this . ’
25 TWO new RSC shows that have just transferred from Stratford to the Barbican could not be more different .
26 ‘ Nearly all supporters feel that their relative is not safe outside on their own , they spend a lot of time sitting around at home doing nothing , they can not occupy themselves , they seem unsteady on their feet , and naturally forget things that have just happened … .
27 The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae .
28 Later , at home , my Dad puts up another five shelves in my bedroom to display the trophies that have just been delivered by Securicor .
29 Consciousness , in Humphrey 's scheme , arises when sensation is made to reverberate within the nervous system , connecting the present to the immediate past : ‘ the conscious present is largely the immediate sensory afterglow of stimuli that have just passed by ’ .
30 To set the scene for this latter article , and as a coda to the two special issues on hypertext that have just gone by , the writer of this editorial offers the following thoughts ( though these are definitely under the guise of Editorial Privilege , and from a non-expert viewpoint as far as hypertext is concerned ) .
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