Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They soon learned not to talk when just a look would do , and even when separated , each seemed to know instinctively when the other was in trouble . |
| 2 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 3 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 4 | Bath treatments are most-commonly used when just an individual fish is affected . |
| 5 | There were hakas and waving flags , and such high-falutin' gushing that , in comparison , the crusades might have appeared as just a quick trip around the block for a gratifying little scrap . |
| 6 | Gordon left after just a year . |
| 7 | Indeed , according to Ralph Shepherd , the NEB was ‘ widely perceived as just a mouthpiece of the industry ’ . |
| 8 | But today the diary is regarded much more as an appointments aide-mémoire , and for the ‘ ordinary ’ person the keeping of a detailed diary of daily events would probably be regarded as just a little eccentric and perhaps even self-centred . |
| 9 | The underlying purpose of recording new information must be made clear to avoid it being regarded as just a bureaucratic exercise . |
| 10 | The relationship is often hostile rather than cooperative , but this can be treated as just a reversal of sign . |