Example sentences of "[prep] just [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time .
2 Simply expressed , and taking these two points together , pluralists are charged with asking the wrong question ( who participates instead of who benefits ) about just the public aspect of policy-making so that they ignore the " private " aspect of power and policy-making altogether .
3 The saloon , which only has two doors and is not sold in Germany , will account for just a tiny fraction of the 37,000 cars Volkswagen intends to export to Britain during 1991 .
4 ‘ How many would one need , ’ Alexandra asked , her eyes on the hens , ‘ for just a small household , say eight people ?
5 He was killed for just a small amount of money .
6 Embankments can vary considerably in size ; many cater for just a slight change in the level of the ground .
7 As he handed her one of the glasses their eyes met briefly , and it occurred to Lisa , for just a fleeting instant , that he was feeling almost as nervous as she was .
8 A colour can be replaced for just a single stitch , across a complete row or throughout the whole design .
9 I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’
10 I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while .
11 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 .
12 Most flower for just a short season and usually have white , pink or red blooms .
13 For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ .
14 Still it 's hard to believe the young warlord wo n't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace .
15 In an attempt to widen share ownership , Matthew Cole , Blues fan and co-editor of the fanzine Tired and Weary , last year offered to surrender 49 of his 50 shares in the club , for just the small cost of the re-registration , to 49 other fans .
16 Twenty-six plates of ‘ Mousse Arbroath Smokies ’ were already laid out , they 'd said — with just the single carrot juice for just the single Vegan girl .
17 Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself .
18 Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere .
19 One of the women on this Sunderland estate told me they all recognised the drive : " It 's part of becoming a member of the community instead of just a reckless teenager .
20 Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element .
21 In other words , Firbas , like Halliday , acknowledges that a unit of information may consist of a given plus new element , or of just a new element .
22 And I like the inclusion too , of just a little bit of jewellery , not too much .
23 Everyone has the gift of life — and for the sake of just a little pain over a week it 's a wonderful opportunity to take .
24 The head and eyes were undeveloped , being difficult to distinguish even with a magnifying-glass , and giving the appearance of just a brown stomach with a tail .
25 As part of the what the stores back in the mid eighties were more expensive suites and so too conflicting we had a fifty or twenty five pound coffee table we sold the two greater mixture so its a methodology of just an ordinary table for exactly without conflict .
26 The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size .
27 That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola .
28 The existence of a second decaying solution , which would occur on its own only if one had an initially large disturbance of just the right configuration , is irrelevant . )
29 Using a fluorescent marker to highlight the left side of any reading material , such as a newspaper , can help the patient to pay attention to the whole text instead of just the right half .
30 ‘ Now this is packed in three-kilo boxes , filled properly with ice of just the right size .
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