Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population . |
| 2 | A beggar , his face covered in sores , his legs cut off just beneath the knees , scampered about on wooden crutches . |
| 3 | But the words came out just as if Garvey had spent all morning thinking about them . |
| 4 | We each took students for whole-day sessions dealing not just with basic literacy and numeracy , but also with social and organizational skills , survival skills , and communication and co-operation exercises . |
| 5 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 6 | Their advantages come not just through enhanced examination success — the grammar schools achieved that . |
| 7 | It 's not easy if titles run out just before Christmas , and there is no chance of getting replenishment in time . ’ |
| 8 | My right arm , he forced around in front of me and pressed it hard on to the table so that the fingers splayed out just in front of my face . |
| 9 | In case of doubt , Justinian ruled that these provisions applied not just to dispositions charged on the heir , but also to trusts charged on legatees and trust beneficiaries . |
| 10 | These agencies helped not just with marketing but with information . |
| 11 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 12 | Just in front of the keeper because it 's amazing how many things fall down just in front of the keeper . |
| 13 | These new reinforcements arrived only just before a resumption of activities which were swiftly to thin their ranks to an alarming extent . |
| 14 | Some villas had several rooms set aside just for sleeping in , and in the larger houses there might even be spare rooms for guests . |
| 15 | She had taken pains to arrive only just in time . |
| 16 | The result of this decision necessitates that tribunals look not just at the nature of the offence but also at the severity or leniency of the punishment . |
| 17 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 18 | Emergencies demanding the swift rallying of armed men arose not just in times of national conflict , but when large or small bands of rustlers swooped on livestock and rode off with them , as those Hexham raiders had intended . |
| 19 | In that partnerships depend not just on technical or logistical arrangements but also personal commitment for their success they may be thought to resemble matrimony . |
| 20 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 21 | And when three men turned back just below camp 4 because of bad weather Harry Taylor climbed on … and then set out for the summit on his own . |
| 22 | The agriculture that made this growing wealth possible was highly organised , although with considerable variations within Sussex : all men worked not just for themselves , but for a lord . |
| 23 | Police went in just after 6.00 a.m. this morning , to get to the bottom of a racket in stolen cars . |
| 24 | Most attention in the past , however , has been given to residential differentiation within urban areas , whereas the current trends are operating on a much broader canvas , such that young school leavers are drawn to London from all over Britain , older people retire to remoter rural areas where they previously enjoyed holidays , and young married couples move not just to the suburbs but to smaller cities and towns situated at considerable distance from the major urban centres . |
| 25 | Pressure on companies to commit their resources to less obviously self-interested causes comes not just from organisations like BITC and the myriad charities , but also from within their own ranks . |
| 26 | Both approaches meet up just below the craggy bastion on its south-west face , from where the broad top is soon reached . |
| 27 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |
| 28 | With a pair of sharp scissors cut round just above the machine stitches . |
| 29 | In this chapter we will consider how social inequalities occur not just between social groups in Britain but also between different areas . |