Example sentences of "[v-ing] just that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pupils at school could study , say , chemistry , physics , and philosophy ; or mathematics , music , and philosophy , would they not be on the way to acquiring just that theoretical , critical , and general expertise that is needed ? |
| 2 | HOUSE ASIDE , European acts have always had trouble being taken seriously in Britain , and though Finland 's Leather Nun have always scraped a smattering of cult credibility here , ‘ International Heroes ’ is a bloody good attempt at becoming just that . |
| 3 | HOUSE ASIDE , European acts have always had trouble being taken seriously in Britain , and though Finland 's Leather Nun have always scraped a smattering of cult credibility here , ‘ International Heroes ’ is a bloody good attempt at becoming just that . |
| 4 | He seemed to have difficulty articulating just that one word . |
| 5 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 6 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 7 | As the music died away she sent a shimmering glance round the room , a glance designed to send every red-blooded man 's pulse racing just that little bit faster . |
| 8 | There is also the temptation to make the questionnaire too long in the hope of getting just that little bit more information , this can more than defeat its object by reducing the response rate . |
| 9 | He was sitting in front of the television , having just that , about an hour later when his mother put her head round the door and said , ‘ What 've you done with your swimming things , love ? ’ |
| 10 | But Europe 's obsession with clearing a path to a common foreign and defence policy risks doing just that . |
| 11 | Most councils were doing just that . |
| 12 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 13 | Here are some ways of doing just that . |
| 14 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 15 | Remember , I 'm used to doing just that — as a foreign correspondent . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know we have a department devoted to doing just that . |
| 17 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 18 | Currently at the Haymarket Theatre , Basingstoke , the theatre company are doing just that . |
| 19 | The Federal Reserve knows its history too and is doing just that , slashing interest rates . |
| 20 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 21 | And it is doing just that for the ladies in my classes . |
| 22 | They accepted his assurance that he was a gynaecologist who wanted to help women and that his Harley Street-based Courtney Foundation was doing just that . |
| 23 | However , making a decorated and framed picture of the sheet music is a marvellous way of doing just that , and has the added benefit of being a very unusual and original idea for a present . |
| 24 | Let's hope she continues to stun us by doing just that . |
| 25 | By now I 'd read about how exhausting flight could be and how birds of prey used warm air currents — known as thermals — to lift them without using up too much energy , and here they were , doing just that over the rocks by Tintagel Castle . |
| 26 | It was one thing to talk tritely about holding life in our hands ; it was a very different matter to find oneself on the point of doing just that . |
| 27 | The group ‘ Brut de culture ’ is doing just that , under the organisation of Patrice Bazille . |
| 28 | Already a number of companies , including Bull 's Integris division and Dallas , Texas-based VISystems Inc are doing just that , as well as offering the facility on non-IBM kit . |
| 29 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 30 | CA European marketing manager , Mike Maunder , says ‘ we were inundated with demands on a worldwide basis to respond to the downsizing issue , and now we 're doing just that . ’ |