Example sentences of "[be] [adv] just [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 We are only just beginning to realize from research just how much this is so .
2 Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth .
3 Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals .
4 One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies .
5 It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency .
6 We are only just beginning to plan these new general SVQs .
7 We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness .
8 Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries .
9 We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education .
10 These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects .
11 A decade later we are only just beginning to find ways of alleviating some experiences related to such stress ( Pound and Mills , 1985 ) and seriously addressing the role of social support as a protection from depression ( Koziarski et al . ,
12 ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite , ’ he said .
13 He added : ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite .
14 Many of the factories started in the late 1980s are only just beginning to produce .
15 I am not just trying to extol the virtues of a well-managed filtration system , nor should I need to , but this is an actual necessity to maintain Siamese Tigers at their best .
16 But he added : ‘ I am not just trying to play now so I can force my way into the Cup final team .
17 ‘ I hope this Tory government 's change of heart is genuine and that they are not just trying to pass the buck .
18 ‘ My darling ! ’ he whispered hoarsely , and , as if trying to believe what her eyes were telling him , his arm tightened about her and , ‘ Are those tears , the ones you 're only just managing to hold back , tears of joy ? ’ he asked tensely .
19 And we 're only just beginning to realise that .
20 ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said .
21 So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender .
22 There is a rich erm , history of women in Scotland and we 're only just beginning to discover that and publish that , and I think that we will establish traditions by doing that .
23 We 're only just beginning to think about it . ’
24 They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins .
25 Our table , under Harry 's stern gaze , sat solemnly well behaved until he leaned over and uttered the immortal words , ‘ We 're not just going to take this , are we ? ’
26 ‘ But we 're not just going to sit here until they come for us ? ’
27 But you 're not just going to get away with it , this time .
28 Yeah I think we 're actually just trying to find out which , which er
29 II , stocks of consumer goods may be growing or their prices no longer rising — or no longer rising as rapidly as before — and the new productive capacities are possibly just going to enter the production stream .
30 ‘ I 'm not just trying to make the final .
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