Example sentences of "[noun sg] be just [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the possession of the motor car was just becoming the norm , but the town had been designed fifteen years earlier |
| 2 | The first rays of the sun are just touching the summit of the Mountain of God . |
| 3 | The sun was just catching the summit of the opposite hillside , making a corona of light over the towering cypresses . |
| 4 | The sinking sun was just catching the gilding on the green dome of the buildings behind St Wenceslas . |
| 5 | Rupert Murdoch 's Sky satellite channel had 600,000 subscribers and the rival BSB satellite service was just entering the market . |
| 6 | When Mandy came in , Charity was just closing the lid on her suitcase , the little cabin stripped bare of her belongings . |
| 7 | The usual rule of thumb is that if at least half the model 's base is covered by the template then it is potentially hit , while if the model 's base area is just grazed the model is not affected . |
| 8 | ‘ The priority is just to get a victory under our belts again . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps the poor baby was just feeling a bit hot . ’ |
| 10 | So the easiest thing is just ask a question and say nothing , wait for the answer and then respond appropriately . |
| 11 | Mr Sandy recalls that the biggest challenge was just to get the name known in the major markets in Europe : ‘ Whether the message coming back was ‘ Unbekannt ’ or ‘ Pas Connu ’ the gist of it was that we were unknown and if you 're trying to sell whiskies people have n't heard of , then you have n't got much to go on . ’ |
| 12 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 13 | Perhaps the newt is just providing the frog surface layer with positional signals that may still be the same in both animals : what has changed in evolution is how the signals are interpreted . |
| 14 | ‘ The Minister is just finishing a phone call , then I must tell him one thing before he sees you , ’ he said , briskly , glancing at the miniature switchboard beside him which sat incongruously in the draughty , high-ceilinged , dingy room . |
| 15 | ‘ My batman was just running a bath . ’ |
| 16 | The salesman was just closing the hood , and Hank walked round to the back of the car and bounced it firmly up and down with his hands . |
| 17 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 18 | Death was just finishing a bowl of it . |