Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sprout can take just so much and then no more . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the Carrion can attack just as the adventurers reach the final approaches to the Castle , as detailed below . |
| 3 | Mr Lawrence believes that the market price for auditing can fluctuate just as the price for bananas can go up and down . |
| 4 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 5 | But the cult of ugliness can become just as fake as the cult of prettiness if it is a denial of its opposite . |
| 6 | The chemist can use just such a matrix to trap a species whose normal lifetime is just fractions of a second , and subject it to a longer , closer scrutiny than would otherwise be possible . |
| 7 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 8 | A nickname can mark just one incident in the life of the person concerned . |
| 9 | Frozen raspberries are available all year , but poached pears or plums , or even canned fruit in natural juice can work just as well . |
| 10 | Stef was turning out to be very trying ; she seemed unable to accept that one love can finish just like that — poof ! — and a new one begin . |
| 11 | She has found that the decision to choose residential care can cause just as much bereavement and guilt as can death . |
| 12 | The latest in 486 machines with bags of RAM can benefit just as much , particularly when using resource hungry applications like Microsoft Windows . |
| 13 | The average Macintosh user can proficiently operate around six packages while the PC user can manage just three , of which one is the dreaded operating system . |