Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by just " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place has been occupied by just about everyone you could name over the centuries . |
| 2 | In Britain three-quarters of all daily newspapers are owned by just three companies . |
| 3 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 4 | The existence of other endothelin receptors also seems to be increasingly likely ; indeed , it may well be difficult to imagine that the actions of three different peptides are mediated by just two receptors . |
| 5 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 6 | However , although this example reflects the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to think the sanction of positive repentance through to its logical conclusion , it also demonstrates just how powerful this sanction could be , had it been accompanied by just one further instruction — ‘ publish the repenting adverts in the original outlets ’ . |
| 7 | Observe that this task can be solved by just altering the first three joints . |
| 8 | Her whole life seemed to be dominated by just one man , so that she could concentrate on little else . |
| 9 | Indeed , in the best of all possible media worlds , all rapes and sexual assaults would be committed by just a few sexual maniacs and the press could then help to orchestrate the national search against these declared aliens in our midst . |
| 10 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 11 | Banbury vet , Clifford Butler , said the dog suffered multiple injuries unlikely to have been caused by just one kick as Hughes claimed . |
| 12 | Here , fortunately , beer sales are increasing by just over 2 per cent per annum , or in terms of malt an additional requirement of 250,000 tonnes each year . |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , the Nikkei index were to fall by just 20% from its mid-February level , it would leave a total of $114 billion-worth out of the money . |
| 14 | The two vehicles were separated by just 13ft of rope tied diagonally between them . |
| 15 | After the opening photograph round eight teams were separated by just one point . |
| 16 | Last year , at a cost of C$1.4m ( $1.9m ) , the commission investigated about 1,800 complaints , four-fifths of which were made by just four zealous citoyens . |
| 17 | Wine imports over the same period were reduced by just over 40 per cent . |
| 18 | Played two … lost two … that 's Gloucester rugby club 's league record this season … do n't panic though on Saturday they were beaten by just one point at Leicester in a game that should have been their 's |
| 19 | In South America , for instance , 47% of the land is owned by just 2% of the population . |
| 20 | Much of the final selection is done by just one person . |
| 21 | An example of the interactions between living things in which both partners would appear to benefit equally occurs in the Amazon Forest where one particular species of orchid is pollinated by just one species of bee which seems to be tailor-made to fit the flower which it pollinates . |
| 22 | The show is watched by just six million viewers , but he said : ‘ I think the public are beginning to take to it . ’ |
| 23 | Individual ants , misled in this way , fail to reach their holes but go to a point in the desert that is displaced by just the amount that the sun 's image was shifted by the mirror . |
| 24 | The tiny station at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire is run by just two people , and both are dedicated to keeping the long suffering rail traveller happy . |
| 25 | It 's charged by just a one litre petrol or diesel generator . |
| 26 | At present it 's run by just him and one part-timer . |
| 27 | — all semantic information is expressed by just one word ( no need for modifiers or other restrictions ) ; |
| 28 | Administration is handled by just three staff including Norman Eggleton . |
| 29 | It 's extraordinary is n't it ? be changed by just looking at it ? |
| 30 | By having the paragraphs indexed as node-link-node triples , one gets better insight into the relationship between the paragraph and the semantic net than when the paragraph is indexed by just a node name . |