Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend . |
| 2 | He said the bilateral talks between Britain and America had broken down just before Christmas , when the BA/U.S . |
| 3 | Glasnost had come only just in time to prevent all the interesting , intelligent spirits from vanishing . |
| 4 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 5 | The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat , but by a deep artificial lake . |
| 6 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 7 | These awards are won not just by those responsible for export sales — although their contribution is very important — but by every employee in the business . |
| 8 | By 1844 , when Wordsworth so fiercely objected to the coming of the railway , many more people were being attracted not just for the natural attributes of the area but for all those extra attractions which were suddenly being introduced such as ‘ wrestling , horse and boat races , and pot-houses and beer-shops . ’ |
| 9 | But another feature in the projects noted is that they have elements both of research and development in them , and the work has been pursued not just with one school but usually with several concurrently . |
| 10 | It is pursued not just in specially funded research institutes , but on a large scale in industry , and by private foundations and policy institutes . |
| 11 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 12 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 13 | Criticism of Cossiga for heading the movement for constitutional reform in favour of an executive presidency had come not just from the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS-formerly the Communist Party ) but also from within the Christian Democratic ( DC ) party , notably from former Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , and from Ettore Gallo , who had retired as President of the Constitutional Court in July . |
| 14 | These matters are important because they explain how Pound and Eliot , who had campaigned as a team and would help each other for many years to come , radically differed not just in themes and attitudes ( of which something will be said hereafter ) but at this deep level , in the not altogether conscious interstices of their craft . |
| 15 | Examples of this outward expansion , combined with an increasing centralization , are confined not just to sites dependent on a single main road , as at Brough-on-Fosse , but also to sites developing at road junctions as in the case of Great Chesterford . |
| 16 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 17 | The value of each tactic is considered not just for the problem itself , but as an approach that might be used again on a future occasion so that the person can learn how better to cope with future problems ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | This road can be picked up just outside Kenilworth , whence it runs in a south-easterly direction through Offchurch across country to Southam , and thence through an almost uninhabited landscape towards the North-amptonshire uplands . |
| 19 | To meet these requirements de Fonbrune recommends that pipettes with a solid pointed end should be used , the mouth of the pipette being located laterally just behind the tip ( Figure 1 1B and C ) . |
| 20 | It is never achieved ; it is never enough : military power is to be developed not just for security of the homeland , but for restraining Imperialism throughout the world . |
| 21 | The oldest man on the Derry side , he is also among the most highly regarded not just in Ulster but throughout the country as a whole . |
| 22 | During the development of the qualification package consideration should be given not just to the training needs of assessors and internal verifiers , but also the way in which the person responsible for the day to day management of the scheme ( the central contact ) could be assisted in the planning of the implementation of the qualification in the organisation . |
| 23 | Er , this particular disease , Alzheimer 's disease was identified by Jim , who was the deputy mayor , a member of ours , who spoke to you earlier in the week , as one of the hidden diseases in our society , where more help should be given not just from the people who suffer from the disease , but from their , for their families who have to support them . |
| 24 | The damage can be limited not just by a vow of silence from the government 's critics , but also by intelligent fiscal action from the government itself . |
| 25 | As direct eye contact is established , then held , her pupils are dilated not just by the half-light , but by adrenalin . |
| 26 | Well er grown in just in rotation you know working the land every five or six year rotation er and er you had not very much hay . |
| 27 | Lightly spiced prunes and pears are stirred in just before serving . |
| 28 | Tommy Mooney should have done better just before half time after going through but he rushed his shot and failed to even hit the target . |
| 29 | They were attended not just by journalists but by senior civil servants , foreign diplomats , and — seated to the right of the General — the prime minister and the other members of the government . |
| 30 | The outcome has been a major advance in thinking about the curriculum in holistic terms , in which curriculum planning is done not just in terms of subjects and their traditional labels , but also in terms of areas of experience , skills and processes as well as knowledge , and personal and affective aspects as well as the cognitive . |