Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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1 | The 32-year-old man was shot in the stomach after being robbed of just 26p . |
2 | ‘ Like the sonata , the concerto also has the same seriousness of purpose and it is very definitely large-scale in its emotional and musical content , in spite of being set in just one single movement . ’ |
3 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
4 | This would embrace all the institutional players and allow for the rolling settlement system to be cut to just three days — in line with the systems in other international centres . |
5 | And , for your information , my life is n't chock-full of boys , as you seem to imply — ’ not at the moment , anyway , she thought ‘ — I happen to be engaged to just the one . ’ |
6 | It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter . |
7 | It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter . |
8 | so it is salutary to be reminded of just how good a composer he could be , how inventive , how much sheer skill he had . |
9 | Years after the excavation took place , it may come to the notice of schoolchildren studying history , but by this time , the site that required so much work to gain so much information is likely to be described in just one or two sentences . |
10 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |
11 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
12 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
13 | Her whole life seemed to be dominated by just one man , so that she could concentrate on little else . |
14 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
15 | More than 37,000 specially printed squares , concealed in Batman and Joker playing cards , and waiting to be impregnated with just one drop of LSD , were found when detectives from Herefordshire and the Metropolitan police raided the appropriately named , Lawless Cottage at Sellack near Ross on Wye in Herefordshire in January last year . |
16 | Normally a claim has to be filed within just three years . |