Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] just " in BNC.

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1 Bradstone , leading producers of high quality paving and walling products , is pleased to offer out prizewinner the opportunity to do just that in this exciting competition to win a patio worth £3,000 .
2 Furthermore , the right hon. Member for Finchley had the opportunity to do just that because at that time she had the right of veto .
3 Place the top over a jam jar of water , with the base resting just under the water .
4 The split comes just days after Freddie was reunited with his ‘ lost ’ son Carl , 26 , from his first marriage .
5 The board acted just weeks after GM disclosed the biggest loss in corporate history .
6 The Board has just made a visit to the North West Region of .
7 The winner came just after half-time … and for the third game running it came from the shooting boot of defender Paul Bodin … when was the last time a full back scored three goals in a row … who cares … this one was good enough to give Swindon victory …
8 Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 .
9 " Yes , the tide had just about turned when I got there .
10 Belle Ile was quite spectacular , a castle crowning a hill beside the sea , a vast estuary stretching beyond it , sand where the tide had just retreated .
11 The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own .
12 The Bruce claimant to the throne had just died , but his son and grandson were determined to assert family rights , even if it meant offering their services to Edward I for as long as it might take to drive the Comyns from the seized lands in Annandale .
13 My door was open and I was halfway across the room when I saw the snake curled just outside , as if in wait for me .
14 ‘ Because on the hour means just that and failure to transmit at the given time usually means one thing .
15 The election arrived just at the right time .
16 If they all have the same score then the decision to carry just one forward is arbitrary , or they must all be carried forward just as though a tree were being searched .
17 The decision came just eight hours before the deadline imposed by the British Olympic Association ( BOA ) for cities to be considered as the British nomination .
18 The decision had just been reported in the Times .
19 The decision comes just two weeks after House of Fraser stores across Britain — excluding Harrods — gave in to Sunday trading .
20 Maggie was sitting reading a magazine when Laura came into the kitchen having just got the twins off to sleep .
21 In fact the doorbell had just rung and Ursula had gone to answer it .
22 Its shares slumped from around $170 before the October 1987 crash and instead of recovering with the Index have just touched a seven-year low at $96 .
23 Well , the University 's just admitted all its students this year , and we 've had what I think is a particularly good year .
24 The line of a jaw , the curve of a breast , the way the hair falls just so : as well as this potent mix of stored physical ideals — what Simonde de Beauvoir called ‘ incandescence ’ — you are , like it or not , influenced by fundamental programming which dictates that , while the ‘ higher ’ processes of your mind dicker around in a gadfly twentieth-century way , the areas of the brain that control instinctive behaviour are looking for a mate , a woman of energy and physical alertness : a good breeder .
25 We do not have the freedom to do just what we like .
26 This is because in searching a very large library collection it is essential to attempt to ensure that the user gets just those references that are required .
27 The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works .
28 The story exhibits just the type of learning and experimentation that one would expect from incrementalism , except that , in the Honda case , the experiments were being conducted for real , not just in the executives ' minds prior to decision , and the process did not seem all that logical .
29 The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’
30 The 35-year-old has just had minor surgery to remove a floating piece of bone from his elbow and he intends to fly out of the country to represent Zimbabwe in an African Nations Cup tie next weekend .
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