Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.

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1 It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings .
2 This would embrace all the institutional players and allow for the rolling settlement system to be cut to just three days — in line with the systems in other international centres .
3 And , for your information , my life is n't chock-full of boys , as you seem to imply — ’ not at the moment , anyway , she thought ‘ — I happen to be engaged to just the one . ’
4 It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter .
5 It will mean that wide-ranging corporate risks will be able to be placed with just one underwriter .
6 so it is salutary to be reminded of just how good a composer he could be , how inventive , how much sheer skill he had .
7 Years after the excavation took place , it may come to the notice of schoolchildren studying history , but by this time , the site that required so much work to gain so much information is likely to be described in just one or two sentences .
8 He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks .
9 ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing .
10 Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way .
11 Her whole life seemed to be dominated by just one man , so that she could concentrate on little else .
12 Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent .
13 More than 37,000 specially printed squares , concealed in Batman and Joker playing cards , and waiting to be impregnated with just one drop of LSD , were found when detectives from Herefordshire and the Metropolitan police raided the appropriately named , Lawless Cottage at Sellack near Ross on Wye in Herefordshire in January last year .
14 Normally a claim has to be filed within just three years .
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