Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heathland in southern England is perhaps the most threatened wildlife habitat in Britain , despite the fact that its international importance is well established — the Dartford warbler , nightjar , stonechat , sand lizard and smooth snake make up just a part of the splendid fauna . |
| 2 | Melissa 's mouth sagged open just a little and Robyn 's smile was pure satisfaction . |
| 3 | This was true of the declared intention to establish not just a common commercial policy once the transitional period had been concluded , but also of objectives which were to be sought during the transitional phase : a common transport policy , free movement of workers , and a common agricultural policy . |
| 4 | The type of cultural intervention envisaged by the Committee involves not just a preaching mission , but also active cultural transformation of a kind which requires a certain degree of " love " , or a liberal and sympathetic attachment not only to " folk " cultures but even to urban industrial cultures : " The ambassadors of poetry must be humble , they must learn to call nothing common or unclean — not even the local dialect , the clatter of the factory , or the smoky pall of our industrial centres " ( 238/260 ) . |
| 5 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 6 | In its largest and perhaps most significant perspective , deconstruction involves not just a critique of the grounds of knowledge in general , but specifically of the grounds of Occidental knowledge . |
| 7 | Today , of course , the test of love between men would be their willingness to share not just a toothbrush but also a razor . |
| 8 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 9 | No not Jennifer hang on just a minute let me try Jennifer there . |
| 10 | They hesitated , looked at each other a bit sheepishly and Bill songed away Just a Little Less Harder Than Before . |
| 11 | He came forward again , eyes narrowed , pushing his face close to Graham 's so that the younger man shrank back just a little . |
| 12 | Martin Potter boasted not just a manager , coach and partner in the shape of Peter Colbert , but an adviser , an agent , and occasional heavies and bureaucrats who hovered around him as if they were guarding the crown jewels . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ The plane touched down just a short distance before the runway itself . |
| 14 | Julius returned in just a couple of minutes . |
| 15 | The yeomen , husbandmen and craftsmen who lived in these tenements had mostly just a single fireplace in their timber-framed houses at the time of the hearth tax return of 1672 . |
| 16 | In the hands of Althusser and Habermas , the critique of ideology becomes not just a basis for pouring scorn on the thinkers who have rationalized an exploitative economic and class system . |
| 17 | Just imagine if Deano started scoring a couple of goals and the defence tightened up just a fraction more . |
| 18 | Sometimes at the Dispatch Box the Minister displays not just a cocky attitude — on occasions I could be accused of that myself — but almost an arrogant attitude . |
| 19 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |
| 20 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |