Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] just [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vegetarians said the cage , five feet high and just over three feet wide , was a true representation of the conditions chickens face . |
| 2 | The second problem of having inadequate — as distinct from inaccurate — presuppositions is a little different though just as dangerous . |
| 3 | Cooking for a healthy heart is easy and just as delicious as doing things the ‘ coronary ’ way . |
| 4 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 5 | She is alive and just as attractive as ever , so please do n't lose touch with this thing of beauty that is certainly a joy forever . |
| 6 | He was five feet five inches tall and just as wide , with a face that resembled the rough end of an oak beam . |
| 7 | So they have to pretend he 's still ill and just as disagreeable as he used to be ! ’ |
| 8 | The issues raised are more diverse and just as difficult . |
| 9 | For a small amount of cream a wire whisk is perfectly satisfactory and just as quick as an electric beater . |
| 10 | And Clare 's just as stubborn and just as silly . |
| 11 | We should be most proud that , despite the fact that our health service spends less wastefully than those in some other countries , our figures on , for example , perinatal mortality are better or just as good . |
| 12 | The female categories on the contrary have negative , pejorative or just excessively feminine connotations . |
| 13 | It 's much cheaper and just as effective , my horse 's coat is gleaming . |
| 14 | It 's grungier , looser , sleazier and just plain rockier . |
| 15 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 16 | In the pink or just slightly red ? |
| 17 | The American adventure movie Raiders of the lost ark and its sequels , in which actor Harrison Ford played Indiana Jones , an heroic archaeologist , have proved to be more than just financially successful productions . |
| 18 | Since only the United Nations can do the job of peacemaking , is the Minister concerned that just over half the value of the assessments on individual countries for last year has been paid , and will she therefore press other members of the international community to ensure that they give the United Nations the resources to do that necessary peacemaking and peacekeeping job ? |
| 19 | Tonight 's colour scheme was more sombre but just as tasteless : chocolate-brown slacks , a violet pullover and a green suede jacket . |
| 20 | I do n't imp intend to preach to the converted but what I do intend to say to anyone in this hall that 's either indifferent or complacent or just too idle to do anything than let this motion drift by them , that if we do n't get together on this issue to get the message over to our national officers and in turn the T U C , that if we do n't stand and fight for the right to uphold the basic principles of what I believe to be trade unionism , that is the right to withdraw labour , the right to protect our brothers and sisters from oppressive employers , the right to command decent conditions and fair pay without fair reprisal . |
| 21 | In most cases it is safer and just as efficient for sub-committees to make recommendations and for decisions about these to be taken by the whole governing body . |
| 22 | You either you either get too hot you get boiling hot and just too hot to do anything . |
| 23 | We were both in our early twenties and just too young to get married . |
| 24 | If you do n't have fresh greenery to make garland , fake ones are practical and just as attractive . |
| 25 | While ordinary motive power generally became more standardised , and again as told later in these pages the difference between locomotive-hauled and multiple-unit stock less marked , the variety still remains impressive and just as many notebooks and cameras record the passage of trains at the end as at the beginning of the eighties . |
| 26 | MORE HONEST than the above but just as romantic , albeit after Hemingway rather than Erich Segal , this finds Peckinpah surveying the carnage of the Mexican Revolution and has his heroes — William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Warren Oates , Ben Johnson — go out in an authentic apotheosis , a slow-motion orgy of mass-destruction even more trippily appealing than the wryness of Butch and Sundance . |
| 27 | Little Maureen , whose face so disturbed me , fair , freckled , abjectly Nordic , the mouth too big or just too external , designed to express only powerlessness . |
| 28 | Kenny was eager , ardent and just as principled as his father and in his seventeenth year . |
| 29 | The boy who deliberately confused English and German to create a language all to himself , the girl who pulled off her toenails , the boy who refused to speak for days on end , the girl who hid all her possessions and swore that others had stolen them - all these and many more were classed as difficult but just about manageable . |
| 30 | As a species , rock journalists are often dedicated free spirits , either too young or just too immature to believe that the normal responsibilities of life — good manners , for instance — might apply to them . |