Example sentences of "were just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 2 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 3 | Well they were just just held in the barns too . |
| 4 | It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 . |
| 5 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 6 | ‘ At the Highbury semi-final there were just over 300 officers on duty . |
| 7 | In 1986 , the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) , estimated that there were just over a million ( 1,010 thousand ) one parent families in Great Britain caring for more than a million and a half ( 1.6 million children ) . |
| 8 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 9 | The number of one-parent families has grown in the past two decades increasing by almost 80 per cent between 1971 — when there were just over half a million one parent families — and 1986 when there were just over a million . |
| 10 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 11 | They were just over two inches each in size . |
| 12 | Total fines were just over £1 million . |
| 13 | We have seen that there were just over 100 there in 1875 . |
| 14 | The financial importance of this seizure for Edward III has yet to be satisfactorily explored and calculated , though it was clearly considerable : there were just over a hundred cells or estates involved and in the financial years 1342–3 and 1345–6 they paid farms to the king totalling £5304. 7/ 7d. and £4181. 8/. 2d. respectively . |
| 15 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 16 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 17 | They were just physically impossible to move in and out of the studios . |
| 18 | We had a big management shakeup in BHS when I could see that certain people were just not going to change their spots . |
| 19 | They were just not talking to each other at all . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Bert Havill , an electrician and the club 's international chairman who had arranged the visit through the Russian embassy in London , said : ‘ Quite frankly , they were just not what we were expecting . |
| 21 | It was quite obvious that The Smiths , despite the continued artistic success , were just not in any position to think , or indeed to act , big on an international scale . |
| 22 | Most were just not quite right . |
| 23 | Most MPs and Minister were just not interested . |
| 24 | ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’ |
| 25 | For our part , the Government were just not prepared to stand by and see our capital city and its people denied the benefits of this imaginative project . |
| 26 | But , while Border expressed his delight with the form of strike bowler McDermott , Gooch admitted : ‘ We were just not capable of splitting Border and Mark Waugh when we needed to . |
| 27 | They 'd had plenty of bait four nights ago , then another two helpings of bait on another two nights and , although they were moving around the swim as was evidenced by line bites and rolling , they were just not inclined to feed — whatever the conditions . |
| 28 | They were just not telling him . |
| 29 | The army chief of staff warned that naval and air action alone would not achieve Radford 's objectives , while the troops which were needed to fight a land war were just not available . |
| 30 | Honestly , it was just sitting there , we were just not moving . |