Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] 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 | It 's hoped all 500 operations will have been completed within just 6 weeks . |
| 3 | Mr Gough said that the merger discussions had been completed in just three weeks . |
| 4 | This place has been occupied by just about everyone you could name over the centuries . |
| 5 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 6 | Although the Funny Farm has been operating for just over a year it has had many bands through its doors already including The Proclaimers , The Silencers , Botany 5 , Kith ‘ n Kin , Avalon , Fini Tribe , Jools Holland and Nazareth . |
| 7 | a radiograph of the pieces revealed that it had not been made from just one piece of iron , but from many welded together . |
| 8 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 9 | A log fire crackled in the hearth and two capped braziers had been moved in just inside the door . |
| 10 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 11 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 12 | At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years . |
| 13 | Even before he became king , Edward sent out some ninety-four letters to religious superiors asking for benefices , pensions and corrodies for his clerks , and in the course of his reign over four hundred and fifty requests for corrodies , addressed to over two hundred houses , have been counted in just the Calendar of Close Rolls ; between 1308 and 1327 Worcester priory received no fewer than fifty-one royal requests on behalf of royal servants . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the candlestick is beautiful — dare I say we 've been lusting after just such a one for ages , and now we can enjoy your gift . |
| 16 | The Rovertrail has been invented for just that situation ( and many others , of course . ) |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Banbury vet , Clifford Butler , said the dog suffered multiple injuries unlikely to have been caused by just one kick as Hughes claimed . |
| 19 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
| 20 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 21 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 22 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 23 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 24 | They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah . |
| 25 | It was a neat description by a commander who had been forewarned of just this certainty . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Sixteen-year-old Michael , from Stowmarket , has been shooting for just over two years , and his dedication and practice paid off as he came a magnificent third place in the senior compound section . |
| 28 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |