Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] just a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A complete feeling of misery swept over Robyn , mixed with just a hint of panic , as she really began to despair that she had read her own instructions correctly and would never reach the barn or even civilisation again . |
| 2 | Thus the GSM pre-filter which it is claimed with just a litre of Siporax will not just filter , but perform complete filtration for 20 fish 12″ long , and with room for three litres will filter to 70 fish 12″ long . |
| 3 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 4 | Matt Aitken walked into the studio armed with just an idea . |
| 5 | His salary is now £143,000 , which means that it has more than trebled in just a couple of years . |
| 6 | I had to pay to have them work as fast as they did , only I did n't want my friend 's grave marked with just a cross in the sand for any longer than it had to be . |
| 7 | The number of British cot deaths halved in just a year after the advice . |
| 8 | The leaflet shows a straight-sided bottle , which might hold more fish and be more accommodating to equipment than the teardrop option , which is probably best suited to just a couple of goldfish . |
| 9 | Apart from the community stocking budget being spent on just a couple of fish , the upkeep of many of my big fish is actually cheaper and easier than the community systems . |
| 10 | However , I prefer NO COMEBACKS , not badly treated on just a 4lb higher mark than when landing a comfortable victory at Redcar last month . |
| 11 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 12 | Something had happened to them — they were charged for just a while into being better than they were . |
| 13 | In this context penalties are implicitly treated as if they gave the exact decrease in objective function when a variable is branched on ( as opposed to just a bound ) . |
| 14 | Later , much later , after the war , Mr Chatto was installed , and after him John Sandoe came along , in 1957 , and that is when I first really took notice of what was soon to become a ‘ singular bookshop ’ as opposed to just a bookseller . |
| 15 | This sentence , delivered with just a hint of censure in its tone , convinced me that all further logical argument would be a waste of time . |
| 16 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 17 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 18 | This needs an approach speed of 65 mph , which the full aft trim can not hold , so positive aft yoke is required with just a tickle of power . |
| 19 | The figure has more than doubled in just a year . |
| 20 | By having the paragraphs indexed as node-link-node triples , one gets better insight into the relationship between the paragraph and the semantic net than when the paragraph is indexed by just a node name . |
| 21 | Britain 's four-legged champion failed by just a neck to add Europe 's toughest race to her unbeaten haul , but she proved a fighter to the end . |
| 22 | There are some great set pieces — a brilliantly evoked highway robbery , with Macheath 's gang riding invisible horses and commandeering a stage coach suggested by just a table and a few boxes ; and a grotesque parade of whores , some of them played by men in drag , in which the ladies of the night emerge through a trap-door like beauty contestants from hell . |