Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you stoned or just stupid ? ’ reads a sticker on the back window of the red jeep . |
| 2 | Was he sulking or just ill with drinking ? |
| 3 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 4 | Bring to the boil and cook until just tender . |
| 5 | Although only a small number of weapons had been eliminated , scientists had calculated that just 5 per cent of the weapons that existed were sufficient to destroy the world . |
| 6 | The sufferer from alcoholism is so frequently involved in traffic offences that it has been said that just two drink-driving offences are a strong indication of alcoholism . |
| 7 | The Spartak goal was threatened after just 80 seconds as Steve McManaman whipped in a cross and Don Hutchison flashed an instinctive half-volley over the Moscow crossbar . |
| 8 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 9 | Lastly , conservation has been seen as just one element in rural development efforts , and conservation elements have been linked with agricultural extension , institutional development ( cooperatives , regulated markets , government-supplied services , and so on ) , and the provision of infrastructure ( storage , roads , buildings , etc . ) |
| 10 | In this theory , money is seen as just one of a number of ways in which wealth can be held , along with all kinds of financial assets , consumer durables , property and ‘ human wealth ’ . |
| 11 | Cover and simmer until just tender and beginning to pop . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've spent years reconstructing , integrating , analysing and just plain digging through mud ; cataloguing alien ruins square centimetre by square centimetre and sticking together the pieces of damaged artifacts to form implausible shapes . |
| 13 | Swimming in open-air hot bathwater in view of ice-topped peaks is different , wonderfully different — cleansing , relaxing and just good . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the working class is envisaged as just that ; units ( albeit divided units ) of labour power . |
| 15 | He 'd run away repeatedly as he 'd got older , never with anywhere to go but just anxious to be free of the confining walls and restrictive atmosphere . |
| 16 | PAUL WAY , former golden boy of British golf , is lucky to be alive , kicking and just three shots adrift of Ian Palmer in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 17 | However , the maximal permissible dose for the hands is reached after just 2.4 hours or even less , as the volume is usually much less than 1 ml and the quenching therefore smaller . |
| 18 | Cycling : Whether you want to go mountain biking or just gentle cycling through the forests , both types of bicycle are available for hire and both types of cyclist are well catered for here with a huge network of cycle tracks on offer . |
| 19 | And it 's hard to believe that just four months ago he underwent surgery to have an artificial knee and a steel plate put into his leg . |
| 20 | The inaugural event at Moortown , Leeds , last year was marred by the death of an 81-year-old who collapsed after just four holes . |
| 21 | A cable pattern covering eight stitches can reduce the width by as much as half ; for example , every eight stitches used in the cable patterns should be counted as just four stitches . |
| 22 | Now the Mid Essex Community Health Services Trust , due to come into being on April 1 , is proposing to dissolve after just one year and re-form as a combined trust with MEMHS next April . |
| 23 | And his fears were soon realised when Poland took advantage of a five-on-three power-play after Conway and Michael O'Connor were penalised for infringements , leaving Poland to score after just 13 minutes . |
| 24 | The Conservatives would continue to commercialise and privatise the NHS until it is run as just another business . |
| 25 | In years to come , the children will be faced with the reality that their first photo session showed them crinkle-faced , bawling , yawning or just bored . |
| 26 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 27 | Longer term aims may not require to be re-stated after just one year 's experience — numerous changes of direction will only serve to confuse , but they should be re-examined in the light of progress in attaining short term targets and the development plan should be altered accordingly . |
| 28 | The sole surviving Metrovic D5705 , withdrawn after just 10 years service on BR , was stabled between former ECML Deltics D9016 and D9000 . |
| 29 | What these experiments can not reveal is whether both the equivalence and distinctiveness treatments are effective in producing changes in the discriminability of the cues — clearly the observed difference could be obtained if just one of these treatments worked . |
| 30 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |