Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to win for as long as we can because it would be a long way to go for just one game . |
| 2 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 3 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 4 | Yet even the most draconian measures would still have little effect on health-care inflation — because drugs account for just 7 per cent of all spending on patients . |
| 5 | Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills . |
| 6 | Robert Waller of Harris , owned by the American Gannett newspaper group , said political polls account for just 3 p.c. of turnover in non-election years , rising to 10 p.c. in the election year of 1987 . |
| 7 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 8 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 9 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 10 | Let us think about just one of these four chains . |
| 11 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 12 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 13 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 14 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the tight filming schedule could not wait for just two weeks or so until a suitable engine ( ie a 4F 0-6-0 ) arrived at Bury . |
| 16 | Even if by chance we happened to conceive of just these members of the series , it is surely not in virtue of that fact that they count as correct continuations . |
| 17 | Looks like just one blow . |
| 18 | A History of USAFE by Cees Steijger on the surface looks like just another ‘ coffee table ’ book . |
| 19 | More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed onto just 16 per cent of the land . |
| 20 | Dr Jane Teas , of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston , Massachusetts , believes that AIDS could have originated with just one Haitian homosexual eating infected pork . |
| 21 | Perhaps each species of bird or monkey has poor vision and latches onto just one limited aspect of an insect . |
| 22 | Any pattern can be designed in just two colours , which would be all that is needed if you want to create punchcard or Mylar charts for tuck , slip , weaving and so on . |
| 23 | 120 OR SO PLANT-BASED DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR WORLD-WIDE USE COME FROM JUST 95 SPECIES — MANY KNOWN FOR CENTURIES |
| 24 | Nearly all the original Italian families in the North-East come from just two small areas of Italy — Cassino in the south and Barga in Tuscany . |
| 25 | The system means calls can be located in just 30 seconds at the push of a button , including those made from mobile phones , call boxes and even abroad . |
| 26 | Or brewed in just 2 to 3 weeks . |
| 27 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 28 | Add the shallots or salad onions to the remaining butter in the pan and cook until just soft . |
| 29 | Add onion and garlic to frying pan and cook until just soft . |
| 30 | That is , do all the muscle cells descend from just one or two ancestral muscle cells ? |