Example sentences of "at just [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
2 | Hip dysplasia is most commonly associated with large breeds , and puppies at just five months old may suffer pain from this condition . |
3 | So at just four years old , little Joanna was confined to hospital for two years while the operations took place . |
4 | At just four weeks old , Thomas Colawrean is the youngest person with a library card . |
5 | Consider a simple model of an organism that reproduces at just two ages . |
6 | To take an oversimplified example : if an investor buys marks at three to the pound , and the pound falls until it is valued at just two marks , every pound of the original stake will be worth £1.50 at the new rate . |
7 | But if we look at just One part of that story in detail , we find complications . |
8 | They have all been directed at just one target : the Shah . |
9 | A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him . |
10 | This year 's March figure for the duck was somewhat low at just 1,710 birds , but well up in variety with 14 different species — 15 different being the maximum we have recorded , both occasions in December . |
11 | But what catches the eye , while lane-changing to avoid the gaudily clad in day-glo outfits , is the ease with which you can buy boron-graphite shafts at just 13 dollars a go . |
12 | It is a means of discovering at just eight weeks of pregnancy whether the foetus is normal . |
13 | Lexie Mc Connell died last year at just nine years old . |
14 | All the nuclei in the body process at a , or rotate at a particular speed , according to whatever size magnetic field you put them in , and then you apply a radio frequency field to the body at the , at just that frequency , and if you tune things correctly , there is absorption of energy , and you can detect that . |
15 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
16 | It was at just that moment the bells began . |
17 | Cambridge also have the lightest in their cox , Leigh Vice , she tipped the scales at just seven stone , six . |
18 | To those who answered with a truthful ‘ no ’ , the good doctor could offer an injection of distilled water ( coloured ) for a snip at just twenty-five dollars . |
19 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |
20 | It can go without water for as long as 18 months , and is capable of breeding at just three months old if conditions are suitable . |
21 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
22 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
23 | He suggested that maybe the electrons were not able to orbit at just any distance from the central nucleus but only at certain specified distances . |
24 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |
25 | Fish are judged to be unfit for human consumption at just 2 ppm . |
26 | There was no royalty , no civic dignitaries being honoured as the 2 Buccaneers flew over at just 250 feet . |
27 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |
28 | But why is this so sensitive an issue at just this point in their lives ? |
29 | Only Athenian citizens could profit by allotments of land as ‘ cleruchs ’ ( literally , ‘ allotment-holders ’ ) and it may be more than chance that the qualifications for Athenian citizenship are more closely defined at just this moment ( 451 ) : citizen descent was now required on both sides ( Ath . |
30 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |