Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to just " in BNC.
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| 31 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 32 | In addition to a post-tea batting humiliation , England were reduced to just nine fit men . |
| 33 | Even as I spoke , we were reduced to just about no light at all . |
| 34 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 35 | The mixture is heated to just below 100°C and the DNA dissociates into two single strands |
| 36 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 37 | Each node 's output in the middle layer is connected to just one node in the top layer . |
| 38 | Surely no power on earth or celestial is going to just let us drift apart ? ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I know it 's going to just kill Pilar to give up the house she loves . |
| 40 | is that there 's no point in , in er me going to work if it 's going to just , you know , work out |
| 41 | And your paperwork is reduced to just one invoice a month . |
| 42 | During ‘ Sidewalkin' ’ , when the song is reduced to just a bare skeleton and Jim repeats ‘ Chilled to the bone/Chilled o the bone ’ with a single frozen blue light painting the backs of his jeans from the sewer , the world stops . |
| 43 | It is a funny world in which a child , however mature they may seem , is allowed to just go out without leaving an address or phone number and simply does not come home . |
| 44 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ says Freddie , ‘ one 's tempted to just plunge in and put everything to rights . ’ |
| 45 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 46 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 47 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 48 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 49 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 50 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 51 | Dr Tom Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four young women at the London premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 52 | Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four trusting young women at the Harley Street premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 53 | He was sentenced to just seven years . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought I was going to just keel over on to your shoulder and blurt it out : I love you , I love you … ’ |
| 55 | The societies ' worst point came in 1987 when their market share was reduced to just under 50 per cent ; the banks had 34.5 per cent and other finance companies 16.3 per cent . |
| 56 | In the Philippines 34.6 million acres of rainforest was reduced to just 5.4 million acres by logging programmes during the corrupt Marcos regime . |
| 57 | but erm I do n't think Joan , at the time , last night , Joan said that she was a bit too tired to Bob was having to just fit in with that so I do n't know what they 're gon na do . |
| 58 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 59 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 60 | I know it was , it was changed to just over six pounds last year . |