Example sentences of "fall just " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those watching the count late last night believed that the final tally would fall just below this figure . |
| 2 | They decided to don boxing gloves and fight in a square ring , like professional boxers , so that they could employ full-power kicks and punches against one another , instead of having to let their attacks fall just short of a designated target area . |
| 3 | Mr Lang replied : ‘ I deeply sympathise with Mrs Byers , whose late husband unfortunately died less than a month before the bill was introduced , but hope that she will appreciate that wherever the cut-off point is set , someone will fall just outside it . ’ |
| 4 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 5 | The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war , though that situation was not to last long . |
| 6 | For profitability appears to have fallen just as fast outside manufacturing , where the pressure of international competition must have been negligible . |
| 7 | Eventually , as darkness began to fall just after 9pm , he went on board a rescue boat and was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 8 | Eventually , as darkness began to fall just after 9pm , he went on board a rescue boat and was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 9 | As darkness falls just the odd rockling and pouting are left . |
| 10 | As a rule I have generally found that ‘ hotel restaurant ’ food invariably falls just short of ‘ restaurant ’ food . |
| 11 | Such beings would be ‘ creatures ’ of evil in a special sense , made and animated by their master in a way which falls just short of the heresy that evil can itself create . |
| 12 | The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder . |
| 13 | The anniversary falls just before the regiment is due to amalgamate with the Duke of Edinburgh 's Royal Regiment as part of the defence cuts . |
| 14 | Jones falls just short |
| 15 | In June he fell just short , with 44 per cent of the vote and 145 seats out of 300 . |
| 16 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 17 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Having made his way into the main draw via six rounds in the preliminary and qualifying competitions , he fell just short of a major upset in the first round proper . |
| 20 | She put her hand up to the mound of hair upon her neck and a hairpin fell just audibly to the floor . |
| 21 | A 12.5% dividend hike drew the sting from the results , and the shares fell just 5p to 233p . |
| 22 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
| 23 | Just in time , Hampshire pulled themselves together , and two vital wickets fell just before lunch . |
| 24 | For that year the comparable figure fell just short of half a million at 498,576 . |
| 25 | He fell just as he lies now . |
| 26 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |
| 27 | The 25,572 crowd at Ayresome Park on Wednesday night fell just short of capacity when Manchester returned around 400 tickets . |
| 28 | At Tannadice yesterday , Booth fell just one short of that total , revelling in the assistance offered him by Ferguson 's undoubted physical threat amid a nervous-looking Maltese defence . |
| 29 | Although the kicks and punches are released with great intent , the actual strikes fall just short of the target areas . |
| 30 | Either that , or she was a mistress of the art , pretending to trip , stumble and fall just to thrill the crowd . |