Example sentences of "[adv] just [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One should perhaps just add at this point that Proust also underlines the very flexible nature of this existential time . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , if you did n't put it under my door yourself , maybe you 'd better just check with Reception downstairs . ’ |
| 3 | He turned and went back into the inn , but he could only just stand on his feet . |
| 4 | Because the external examiners are coming into the child 's environment , they might only just walk through the school , but you 'd hope that they would pick up something of the ambience ; plus the work can be presented how the child wants to present it . |
| 5 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 6 | They 'll want to spend time looking at equipment they ca n't afford or can only just run to and will be at some stage of agonising over whether to buy or not . |
| 7 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 8 | Now I know that I 'm going and Alma 's going , but we 've yet to decide I would rather just go to the crematorium |
| 9 | Of course , we hope that you will not just browse through our book in a bookshop , as you may well be doing now , but will buy and use it ! |
| 10 | This forces Parliament to consider , for example , the balance between housing subsidies and housing tax allowances , and a ceiling is put on the value of the total — tax relief can not just grow without anyone noticing . |
| 11 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 12 | I am sorry to say that the hon. Gentleman did not just stoop to the gutter in terms of smearing my hon. Friend : he used a series of inaccurate figures . |
| 13 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 14 | It does not just refer to ‘ sharp business practices ’ and people making slightly greater profits than they should . |
| 15 | The one-flesh nature of the relationship does not just refer to the sexuality of marriage ; although sexuality in marriage is both an expression and symbol of that oneness . |
| 16 | As we are beginning to see , however , these people generate their own rules for ordering their lives , they do not just exist in the middle of chaos . |
| 17 | Local involvement in nation-wide politics does not just depend on intellectual evolution , however , but on the strong conviction that national affairs affect one 's life and so need to be considered . |
| 18 | Expectations of changes in the exchange rate do not just depend on current domestic interest rates . |
| 19 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 20 | More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . |
| 21 | We should not just go through the Lobbies — half the time I do so without knowing for what I am voting . |
| 22 | For his coronation he did not just go to Aachen to be ‘ elected ’ king of the Franks in the old way , but dressed up in Frankish costume for the occasion . |
| 23 | Do not just go to the solicitor who did you conveyancing , or walk into your nearest solicitor 's firm on the high street . |
| 24 | However , as in Burma , the demobilised soldiers did not just return to civilian life : they formed a quasi-military organisation similar to the PVO , though on an ever larger scale , the People 's Security Organisation , Badan Keamanan Raykat ( BKR ) . |
| 25 | Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual . |
| 26 | The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines . |
| 27 | Their intention is to convince readers that genetics will have a powerful influence on their lives and that scientists can not be trusted to protect them : ‘ We can not just sit by as passive worshippers or victims ’ . |
| 28 | Ideologies do not just appear in societies ; their function is to legitimate practices , and they are formulated for this purpose . |
| 29 | This did not just happen by itself . |
| 30 | Picking up tips did not just come in the form of money , for Dave learned enough to become a single-figure handicap golfer by 1967 . |