Example sentences of "[adv] just [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one day , after that first programme , some friends from Halifax arrived with a little black and white Border collie pup , so small he could only just manage to get over the doorstep . |
| 2 | In the absence of any turnaround in the fourth quarter , ICI can only just afford to pay the maintained 1992 dividend of 55.0p at a cost of about £400 million from ‘ clean ’ earnings per share of 48.8p . |
| 3 | In fact , it will only just have begun — because we will need to go on working hard to sustain that achievement . |
| 4 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 5 | They thought that it could only just have died . |
| 6 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 7 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 8 | The project did not just aim to find out children 's existing ideas . |
| 9 | They can not just choose to hurt you , you have to give them the chance ( for example by joining in activities like those listed above ) — so do n't ! |
| 10 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 11 | Ridding yourself of clutter does not just mean organising things into tidy piles , it means either being properly rid of them or putting them in or on something — like shelves . |
| 12 | Thus they are implicitly recognizing that ‘ good ’ can not just mean promoting human survival . |
| 13 | To leave self behind does not just mean denying oneself . |
| 14 | He differentiates this from outsourcing , which he says covers a much broader spectrum — it does not just involve looking after computer hardware and software , but includes other non-computer-related services too . |
| 15 | But women 's views of infidelity do not just involve having sex with someone else . |
| 16 | Do not just avoid paying the bills in the hope that you will eventually find the money . |
| 17 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
| 18 | Teachers , that is , do not just decide to deploy particular skills because of their recognized professional worth and value , or because of their own confidence and competence in operating them . |
| 19 | In conventional costing systems , figures do not just get absorbed into the system never to be seen again ; they may release figures to go flying around the corporate universe , possibly causing considerable mischief . |
| 20 | ‘ We shall break the historic habit because we shall not just get elected tomorrow to clear up the mess , we are going to get re-elected at the next general election as well , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Could you not just have asked me ? ’ |
| 22 | The research does not just attempt to see when , where , whether and which people pack more into their lives but to bridge the gap between existing empirical work based on time budgets and more subjective accounts of the process . |
| 23 | What this analysis indicates , however , is that cost accountants do not just need to improve their product-costing , vital though that is for strategic decisions . |
| 24 | Do it again to make sure you did not just let go of the stick in fright ! |
| 25 | Okay so do n't need to learn all the fractions but we need to we 'll probably just go playing with these the ones we 've got here . |
| 26 | and er , which we finished , and I would really just like to say that erm , thanks very much for the cooperation that we received from the offices generally across the authority . |
| 27 | I know , but yo might as well just stay put here . |
| 28 | It did n't just fail to qualify , it failed to pre-qualify . |
| 29 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 30 | It wo n't work when you go one nil up , or you 're one nil down , you have to hold something in reserve ; mid-field players have to come back , the forwards have to come back and hold tight , you do n't just go charging up looking to get another goal , or trying to equalize , but that 's the basic error . |