Example sentences of "[to-vb] just [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been cut back hugely , and told to concentrate just on defending troops in the field . |
| 2 | A few lucky women can actually tell when they are about to ovulate just by listening to their bodies . |
| 3 | Hardly anyone can have learned both to read and to write and probably few learned even to read just by attending Sunday classes . |
| 4 | Some disreputable agencies try to charge just for putting your name on their lists although this is illegal . |
| 5 | This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers . |
| 6 | Middle-class notions of respectability enable policemen and women ‘ to tell just by looking at someone whether there 's something a bit suspicious about them ’ and ‘ to be able to recognize a decent member of the public ’ ( FN 20/6/87 , p. 20 ) . |