Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] just [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 2 | And the transformation has not just taken place underground . |
| 3 | These measures were designed not just to prevent Germany waging war , but to cripple German industry . |
| 4 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 5 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 6 | They were drafted individually , as opposed to many letters that used common forms , most likely by the chancellor himself or by a very senior notary , and were sent closed , which meant that the bulla and the cords were used not just to authenticate document but to close and seal it up . |
| 7 | What do the Government intend to do not just to offer help to individuals but to give areas such as mine the opportunity to be again a fully participating part of this nation ? |
| 8 | We feel it 's worth staying here just to order breakfast by the pool ! |
| 9 | I was just thinking there w there would be more music playing in those days , because there was n't a television or or things like that you know maybe just to distract people make their own entertainment you know . |
| 10 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 11 | He had a period that he went through just reading books on America . |
| 12 | Since space permits no separate treatment of stunts and stunt artists , their work will be alluded to there and in the last section of this chapter , which concerns special make-ups and costumes — though in practice this may require not just stunt people but also the stars or extras . |
| 13 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 14 | They do not just generate data but enter into collaboration in the continuous monitoring of classroom activity and its effects . |
| 15 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 16 | But as with the sexist idioms and assumptions we looked at earlier , the patterns of language do not just reflect inequality . |
| 17 | Third , conjunctive relations do not just reflect relations between external phenomena , but may also be set up to reflect relations which are internal to the text or communicative situation . |
| 18 | We do not just mean convenience foods , but the convenience of eating a meal in relation to the time allowed , and the situation . |
| 19 | We suppose , for instance , that what somebody says to us will be relevant to the occasion or to what has just been said , that people do not just issue utterances at random . |
| 20 | We do not just consider Mendel 's theory in isolation . |
| 21 | For Hoover did n't just make phone calls , or misuse a limo . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a bit of a loner , ’ Quincx replied , unsure why he did n't just tell Leila his suppositions . |
| 23 | Trucks did n't just set fire to themselves . |
| 24 | But Koresh did n't just take Davidians wives . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a pity that Laura did n't just ask Louisa what her secret was — when she saw her , I mean . ’ |
| 26 | They did n't just have knowledge . |
| 27 | Well last night 's arctic weather did n't just cause chaos on the roads . |
| 28 | I do n't just sack people . ’ |
| 29 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 30 | erm And I 'm very much looking forward to that , on Wednesday I 'm coming and we 're having a promotions day when we 'll let everyone know what we 're doing ; when it 's going to be , where it 's going to be held , and erm give two hundred youngsters the opportunity to try erm the various sports , we do n't just do football now either , we do lots of other sports . |