Example sentences of "to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen will certainly need a glossary , but even then she may well be uncertain as to just how much Kelman likes his unlikely lad . |
| 2 | They are not content to just rest on their laurels . |
| 3 | Take 3in-long shoots of this season 's growth and trim to just below a leaf bud . |
| 4 | Add water to just below the base of the bulbs . |
| 5 | Provided the approach path was correct beforehand , the adverse yaw as the aileron is applied swings the nose off to just about the right point to keep the glider on the correct path . |
| 6 | A martyr of tolerance , I think she would like not to just purse her thin prim lips . |
| 7 | Data was collected using a postal questionnaire sent to just over 3,000 people in two regions — Bristol and Manchester . |
| 8 | On cold january nights , they camped out on platforms for the last experiences of ‘ Whistler ’ haulage , as the class of two hundred was whittled down to just one , the rebuilt , pioneer D200 . |
| 9 | Modern cook-chill processes , using liquid nitrogen , chill partly cooked food very rapidly to just above freezing point at which temperature it will keep perfectly for several days . |
| 10 | Twenty years previously this traffic had amounted to just two million tonnes per annum . |
| 11 | The London Midland Region , the only operator of wholly DC units , cut its varieties to just three . |
| 12 | The inadequacies of Next 's inherited high street formulae have been cruelly exposed by the slowdown in consumer spending , reflected in a slump in profits at Next Retail from £7.6m to just £1.7m . |
| 13 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 14 | It decided to launch the bid sooner than planned after Neill announced a sharp drop in interim profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 before tax last month . |
| 15 | In the six months ended 30 June pre-tax profits fell from £7m to just £5.1m , and earnings per share dropped 36 per cent to 6p . |
| 16 | If a net 1,400-1,500 underwriting members leave the market , Lloyd 's total membership will be reduced from its record high point of 33,532 at the beginning of last year to just over 30,000 . |
| 17 | Mr Collor promised to reduce inflation to just 3 per cent a month within a year by using shock tactics similar to those of President Menem of Argentina . |
| 18 | Turn left along road ; after 200 yds ignore track on left up to barn , carry on along road to just where , before field on lefthand side ends , take gate on left . |
| 19 | For all the obvious potential of the pageantry in attracting tourist income from America and the Commonwealth , official expenditure on flags and bunting in the City of London came to just £150 , while , to save money , the cleaning of the floor of St Paul 's Cathedral before and after the jubilee service was done by an army of volunteers . |
| 20 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 21 | I dug the idea of being free enough to just goof off from incessant maths homework . |
| 22 | You were only allowed to have it down to just below the bottom of your ears — which looked absolutely daft . |
| 23 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | In 1977 Tanzania received thirty-five new diesel engines for the railway system under aid provided by Canada ; by 1982 seventeen of these were out of order and by 1988 rolling stock problems had reduced the once-daily service on the Chinese-built railway to Zambia ( opened in 1976 ) to just twice-weekly . |
| 25 | Indeed , the SL 's overall economy would have been better still had it not taken an unusually dim view of performance testing , its consumption plunging to just 14.4mpg while at Millbrook . |
| 26 | The netting should fit quite snugly and reach to just below the rim of the container . |
| 27 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 28 | It 's a nice picture — it 'd be a shame to just chuck it away . |
| 29 | It started early for some with a trip to just north of the Scottish border to practise demolition techniques . |
| 30 | Trim your cutting to just under a leaf node with a sharp knife or razor blade — they should end up around three inches long — and remove the leaves from the bottom half . |