Example sentences of "[adv] just [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge .
2 Erm , I think since we 've got some new people here , I 'll , I 'll perhaps just say a little bit about the group shall I , just to explain how we operate and erm and also how this meeting is going to operate erm .
3 Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest .
4 On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub .
5 ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits .
6 Yes , we 'd better just approve the minutes of the meeting process , of the last meeting first of all , had n't we lads ?
7 He could only just reach the handle to close the door behind him .
8 ‘ I was so cold I could only just press the stop button .
9 The sound was deep , electronically slick and fluid , but feathered with a tremolo so fine you could only just distinguish the individual notes .
10 John 's fee was his first professional one and would only just cover the expenses of presenting the act .
11 You 'd only just multiply the thing , you 'd spill petrol on an already burning flame .
12 Patrick and Jim could only just overhear the conversation that ensued , in quick-fire French .
13 Because of the remarkable contours of the ground , a fielder in the deep can only just see the tops of the heads of his teammates .
14 His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her .
15 Actually I think somebody who gets a CSE grade 1 has to be very good , far better than somebody who can only just scrape an ‘ O ’ level grade C …
16 He joked : ‘ I would rather just do the run — but I 'm told I 've got to go through with the ceremony as well . ’
17 ‘ I 'd rather just take the gear and give them nothing ’ pretends Richard , smiling .
18 It may just be an extremist minority within a minority that would take offence , but one company told PEN it would rather just take the easy way out and not have pigs .
19 I 'm well in front and I can easy just lose the hundred but I I 'll try for it without trying to knock down too many skittles .
20 According to director of software marketing , Dan Esterlin , Primrose arranges things using a peer-to-peer system and does not just partition the application once , but every time the application is run .
21 They can not just assume the researcher role and use students as experimental subjects , observing how they learn under varying conditions with detached interest to satisfy an intellectual curiosity .
22 Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love …
23 We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception .
24 The conversion did not just affect the family transport .
25 These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide .
26 You should not just abandon the site to nature , these areas have very specific needs . ’
27 But this network will not just serve the big occasions .
28 By an unemployment reserve , I do not just mean a register but a reserve of people who are being trained and well paid and who feel part of the economy and of our industrial community .
29 So Commander Blake we should not just offer a stick saying that we we are n't going to help you until we start dismantling your military programme , we should offer carrots too , do you agree ?
30 However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are .
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