Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 31 | When they reported back to the branch about the National Conference of Young Conservatives , they were questioned about just the things they had failed to notice . |
| 32 | Played two … lost two … that 's Gloucester rugby club 's league record this season … do n't panic though on Saturday they were beaten by just one point at Leicester in a game that should have been their 's |
| 33 | But the Guildford Four were released at just the wrong time , and the government quietly put the scheme on the back burner — indefinitely , it would seem . |
| 34 | Cos they were gon na just put it in generally speaking , you know |
| 35 | The heads of various departments , foremen and other key workers were recruited from just across the county boundary in Sheffield and south Yorkshire ; the rest of the labour force came from many parts of Britain and Ireland . |
| 36 | The cost of maintaining a patient in St. Peter 's Hospital in June 1945 was calculated at just under £3 a week . |
| 37 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 38 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 39 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 40 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 41 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 42 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 43 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 44 | A combination of a well planned and executed programme , better than expected weather and operational benefits derived from onboard data processing meant that a planned two-summer programme was completed in just 4½ months . |
| 45 | It has often been asserted that England was favoured in just such a way on the eve of her industrial revolution . |
| 46 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 47 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 48 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 49 | Dr Tom Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four young women at the London premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 50 | Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four trusting young women at the Harley Street premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 51 | He was sentenced to just seven years . |
| 52 | Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes . |
| 53 | The woman suffered broken bones , and was robbed of just sixty pounds . |
| 54 | A taxi driver has been hijacked , beaten up and driven a hundred miles to London , where he was robbed of just twelve pounds . |
| 55 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 56 | This was done for just 24 of the stimuli , all showing junctions . |
| 57 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 58 | She thought she was peaking at just the right time for her battle of the sexes match with Jimmy Connors scheduled for Las Vegas on September 24 with a 500,000 dollar first prize . |
| 59 | Unfortunately , I do n't know who initiated the move to adopt a Regional policy of this nature , or why a written policy was decided on just then . |
| 60 | He said the church was built for just £5,700 in 1932 . |