Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] just " in BNC.

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1 You think you 're better than I am in just about every way , more beautiful , more clever , more experienced .
2 I was in just such a trance , going through the motions of doing what I was told , but without being able to do so in reality .
3 And perhaps the light from those ears of corn which are in just the right condition for her to lay her eggs , fluoresce in a particular manner , recognizing which from her own inward pre-patterned instincts , she homes in and deposits her eggs .
4 One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was .
5 The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size .
6 A : ‘ How could you do the Anfield Rap when you 're from just south of the Watford Gap . ’
7 So you 're saying , there 's more chance of getting the blue out of out of the second , than there is of just
8 John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it .
9 There was no details on the vouchers as to how much they are worth just a note saying that vouchers must be redeemed before 12 on the matchday .
10 But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product .
11 I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order .
12 Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps
13 And I think it 's worth just rehearsing very briefly that history to get an understanding of contemporary federalism .
14 Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play .
15 It 's like just telling the punchline : if you do n't know the joke , it 's not that funny . ’
16 It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 .
17 And that is why democracy is to be understood as a practice before it is conceived as a set of abstractions ; why it is a system of checks and balances before it is a set of principles ; why , as has been said , it is worth just two cheers , and no more .
18 It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend ,
19 It is from just these categories that notions of sensibility traditionally take their meaning .
20 It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins .
21 Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow .
22 It was at just that moment the bells began .
23 It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig .
24 This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween .
25 If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation .
26 It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ .
27 It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’
28 It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 .
29 As I have said already , it was in just such a position that the doctor who attended us in wartime lived .
30 It was in just this situation that the FAA originally decided to take an authoritative attitude and make it compulsory for flight crews to report dangerous incidents .
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