Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 2 | The two men left Mr Bishop lying in the kitchen after stealing just over £100 . |
| 3 | Will the Minister pledge total support for the Nottingham city technology college for doing just what our young people and the nation need ? |
| 4 | Harvest the flower spikes for drying just as the flowers begin to unfold . |
| 5 | Schmeichel , back after missing two games with a poisoned hand , also blocked Bernie Slaven 's close-range blast with his legs but most of the spotlight fell on Pears who left United for Middlesbrough six years ago in a £70,000 deal after making just five first-team appearances . |
| 6 | I do not believe , first , that there was any less crime under a Labour Government — in fact crime increased under every Labour Government I can remember — or , secondly , that encouraging people to better themselves , to make decisions for their lives and to improve their economic position has anything whatever to do with dishonest methods of doing just that . |
| 7 | That Fran had no intention of doing just that had only just struck him , and he did n't like it one little bit ! |
| 8 | Bearing in mind that the meaning of imagine is something like construct a mental image without solid evidence , consider : ( 75 ) ( 76 ) ( 75 ) gives a single ( complex ) element as subordinate to imagine ; consequently her is subjected to all the aspects of imagine just as much as red-haired . |
| 9 | The effect of introducing just this one gene is to switch off some genes and to set in train a sequence of gene activation so that the cell develops into a muscle cell with all the appropriate proteins — master gene is an appropriate description . |
| 10 | He had driven her half out of her mind with little more than a few heated kisses , and the humiliation of knowing just how much she 'd wanted him burned into her . |
| 11 | Canterbury punters waited six months before hearing just their stake money would be returned on a £60,000 coup . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You may be less complacent when I tell you that the friction of pulling just one wet and grit-encrusted rope through an abseil anchor can be enough to weaken thin tape to the point of sudden fracture when the next load is applied . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 18 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 19 | America is abandoning a similar price-fixing arrangement for memory chips after suffering just such nasty shocks . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd really appreciate your help in locating just who had what keys , ’ he heard himself say . |
| 21 | Expanded it is — you need a degree in weightlifting just to pick it up ! |
| 22 | Dobson was an expert at knowing just how far he could go without actually breaking the law . |
| 23 | Andrew Hayton was released from jail after serving just half his three month jail term . |
| 24 | The Marquess of Blandford has been freed from jail after serving just three days of a four-month sentence . |
| 25 | AUTHOR Jeffrey Archer tells me that he is still signing his name ‘ Jeffrey Archer ’ in his books , rejecting the easy option available since his peerage of signing just ‘ Archer ’ . |
| 26 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 27 | Sort of going just cos daddy 'll sort you out then ! |
| 28 | and they 're going in my neck but I do n't wan na turn over cos she 'll fall off the bed and I 'm sort of going just on me and she 's really funny . |
| 29 | You were n't sort of allowed just in and out when you wanted to , you had to get permission to stay out late . |
| 30 | But if , if if this is the strategy which is being adopted in broadly it is being adopted I mean I 'm , I 'm not just sort of arguing just for the sake of arguing , it is |