Example sentences of "just [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had left Armstrong too long and I hurried back , resisting the temptation to damage the Sierra in some small way ( just for peace of mind ) . |
| 2 | I consider telling her to speak properly , just for spite . |
| 3 | I leave the room and the light on , bare and ugly , just for spite . |
| 4 | If it was just for money , then we would have had a ransom demand by now . ’ |
| 5 | The people that are in the audience laugh when they see animals that could have been made to do things — just for money . |
| 6 | The Ulstermen had accepted this contract not just for money but for more cannabis , said Mr Langdale . |
| 7 | Raymond Campbell wants to join Linfield not just for money ! |
| 8 | Just for money ! |
| 9 | So all these numbers come into your life all the time it 's not just for maths you need |
| 10 | It also helps people here in Costa Rica understand that our forests are important , not just for land , grazing and trees , but also for drugs and medicines . " |
| 11 | When I bought my old computer , it was originally just for word processing — for my books and articles like this one , for example . |
| 12 | Nowadays , I am told , in Germany most doctoral students in history make use of computers , not just for word processing , at some stage of their studies . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not saying he came to the salon just for conversation ? ’ |
| 14 | If we , if we had targeted making a profit of say five hundred and sixty five thousand pounds just for instance |
| 15 | yes , just for instance , my brother pulling my hair in the back of the car and annoying me . |
| 16 | Is that just for supervision ? |
| 17 | Pollution , the environment , again that is something which is not just for concern , we know it 's of global concern as well . |
| 18 | We we er we used to do it like just for door openers really . |
| 19 | When I was a young man , aspiring detectives would attend at autopsies on their rest days , just for experience . |
| 20 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 21 | However , the house price cycle may also be explained by the changing nature of the demand for housing , which is no longer just for consumption purposes ( ie to provide a roof over one 's head ) , but is also for investment reasons . |
| 22 | And that 's just for breakfast . |
| 23 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 24 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
| 25 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 26 | As a personality trait , this is a universal characteristic , necessary not just for survival but also , at moderate levels , for motivating optimum performance on many everyday tasks . |
| 27 | But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter . |
| 28 | If you made mistakes you got the strap you did n't even get the strap just for mischief , you got it for for mistakes and that . |
| 29 | Just for entertainment 's sake ? |
| 30 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |