Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it seems , in the light of pressures for greater public accountability , that the health service can not mount a credible argument as to why it should not be clear about just what activities it is performing and what they cost . |
| 3 | But let us be clear about just what it is that it is seeing . |
| 4 | Hopes were held high for just seven verses . |
| 5 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 6 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 7 | Things started to go wrong after just 16 minutes when Steve Norris raced through and lobbed the ball over the heads for the first goal … |
| 8 | At least if it goes wrong with just one A&R person out front , there are plenty more to approach . |
| 9 | What 's wrong with just a title , science or |
| 10 | To Miss Taylor he was gently charming with just a hint of flirtatiousness in his manner . |
| 11 | I look around at everyone else huffing and puffing in their glows of ecstasy , and realize that I am huffing and puffing with just as much relish . |
| 12 | International banking is an interesting business anyway , but what makes it rather more interesting in this case — both to me and to the hapless Ohioans whose money I am selling — is that I am 25 years old with just one and a half years banking experience . |
| 13 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 14 | And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating . |
| 15 | I 'm not at all interested in just providing background noise . |
| 16 | I am much more interested in just how much you can do with those amazing eyes of yours . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We are not interested in just providing a child-minding service , ’ said Labour Group leader Bill Archibald . |
| 18 | We have a confused and overlapping structure er er , the honourable member might be interested in just how confused it is er and how it can be simplified by er going along with the proposals we 're putting forward on this side of the er er the house because there 's so many overlapping authorities it 's just not clear who 's actually responsible for enforcement and compliance . |
| 19 | Then there are the imports : 83,000 tonnes of toxic waste enter British ports annually for incineration or other treatment , a figure which has increased 20-fold in just eight years . |
| 20 | If this conjecture is at all sound , then the distribution of occurrences of both in conjunction with a pronoun should be more prevalent in just those cases where plural references are in the minority , i.e. in the ‘ with ’ condition , and in the mixed description condition . |
| 21 | DEC reckons it can come closer to a unified Unix than any other supplier , and recently as last month freely admitted that its whole strategy is dependent on just such a gameplan ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 22 | Nine of them are still dependent on just one crop for over 70 per cent of their income . |
| 23 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
| 24 | She loved him so much that it was painful to just stand there watching him , and her eyes filled with easy tears . |
| 25 | It is then clear by just how much dealing costs on large transactions have fallen . |
| 26 | ‘ I imagine it is impossible for just anyone to come in here to see your work , as I have ? ’ |
| 27 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 28 | But vets say the public is unaware of just how dangerous the virus can be . |
| 29 | Erm , and it 's been quickly Christianized with just two little lectures at the beginning of two chapters to Christianize so it was popped in for new testament and it 's the nearest we can get to teaching . |
| 30 | The night was calm and warm with just a slight rustle of a breeze in the trees . |