Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
| 2 | More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem . |
| 3 | Well we 're told to just , just walk away . |
| 4 | A search of this size is impossible with the printed OED , where you are restricted to just those quotations including " love " which the original editors decided to put into the entry for " love " . |
| 5 | Andrews cost Saints £200,000 when he joined from Celtic three years ago but has been restricted to just five appearances as understudy to Tim Flowers and now wants to return to his native Midlands . |
| 6 | The tablets should be pressed to just below surface and the hole filled later |
| 7 | Because few tickets are available fans will be limited to just one pair of tickets each . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like to think that I can offer useful opinions on other positions , and that I would n't be confined to just the back row , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The 80 emergency exchanges would be slashed to just three with the loss of 8,000 trained operators . |
| 10 | I can understand but er I 'm , I 'm used to just going |
| 11 | There is a strong possibility that it will be reduced to just another global talkshop , with a succession of world leaders vying with each other for media-rich prizes in green rhetoric . |
| 12 | He has nearly 29pc of the company , but that will be reduced to just under 21pc on flotation . |
| 13 | He has nearly 29% of the company , but that will be reduced to just under 21% on flotation . |
| 14 | But making a fuss of Mum should n't be restricted to just one day of the year ! |
| 15 | This would embrace all the institutional players and allow for the rolling settlement system to be cut to just three days — in line with the systems in other international centres . |
| 16 | The seven full military bands of the Scottish regiments will be cut to just two , which will serve all units north of the border . |
| 17 | Bloody hell , I 'd even settle for a monthly but Punch should n't be allowed to just expire . |
| 18 | And , for your information , my life is n't chock-full of boys , as you seem to imply — ’ not at the moment , anyway , she thought ‘ — I happen to be engaged to just the one . ’ |
| 19 | One can not know what an adjective is being applied to just by considering its lexical meaning : the support of an adjective is defined by something outside the adjective 's own lexical content . |
| 20 | Here Owen is clearly asking whether men were made to just destroy themselves and nature . |
| 21 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 22 | In addition to a post-tea batting humiliation , England were reduced to just nine fit men . |
| 23 | Even as I spoke , we were reduced to just about no light at all . |
| 24 | The mixture is heated to just below 100°C and the DNA dissociates into two single strands |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Each node 's output in the middle layer is connected to just one node in the top layer . |
| 27 | And your paperwork is reduced to just one invoice a month . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ says Freddie , ‘ one 's tempted to just plunge in and put everything to rights . ’ |