Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] just " in BNC.

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1 More equipment , especially computers are desperately needed to help youngsters here have just as much fun as any other children .
2 The grim face , the extravagant salute and the loud stamp of his boots on the floorboards only fell just short of the military crime most disliked by superiors , dumb insolence .
3 The generally slow and mellow nature of most of the tracks here shows just how wide the differences were between the styles of go-ahead be-bop ( as exemplified by Savoy 's Parker recordings ) and a more easy-going approach to jazz which developed in the late 1940s and '50s in the wake of the bop 's increasing hectic and adventurous music .
4 The forty workers there have just been told about the deficit in the Torvale Group pension fund :
5 ‘ Some flats nearby had just been ‘ re-habbed ’ but the firm which won the contract brought a bus-load of workers down from Tyneside each day to do the work .
6 And even today these do-it-yourself beauty products often work just as well as anything you can buy .
7 But whereas amateur athletes often compete just for the privilege of winning , retailers compete for customers and profit .
8 All the recipes here use just five ingredients and are ready in well under an hour .
9 Women in ‘ male ’ occupations often experience just this — there is conflict between , for example , ‘ behaving like a proper woman ’ and behaving in a manner appropriate to an engineer or scientist .
10 The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well .
11 The aircraft took-off at 1537 hours piloted from the left hand seat ; on becoming airborne , at a position a little over halfway down the runway , the crew saw a flock of birds ahead flying just above the ground .
12 The irony — ironies litter this affair — is that the mortal danger to Rushdie and his fellow-writers elsewhere remains just as acute , even when some of the fiercest original proponents of the fatwa have softened their stance since the fury of four years ago .
13 My complex stories and fantastic drawings usually scored just two out of 20 .
14 Leading shares now earn just 6 per cent gross and pay dividends of 4 per cent .
15 Peale 's dolphins often play just beyond the surf , while the sand at low tide is particularly attractive to several species of wading birds .
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