Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of maintaining a patient in St. Peter 's Hospital in June 1945 was calculated at just under £3 a week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 4 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fall at drinks and confectionery group Cadbury Schweppes was limited to just 2p to 468p as it announced the much-expected cash call to fund further acquisitions in the US . |
| 7 | It emerged yesterday that officials of COSLA have already told the Scottish Office that it considers the break-even point on costings would come only if the number of new councils was limited to just over 20 and not at 43 as suggested by Touche Ross . |
| 8 | In a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 32 adults and children with atopic eczema , each treatment was given for just 3 weeks . |
| 9 | A combination of a well planned and executed programme , better than expected weather and operational benefits derived from onboard data processing meant that a planned two-summer programme was completed in just 4½ months . |
| 10 | It has often been asserted that England was favoured in just such a way on the eve of her industrial revolution . |
| 11 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 12 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 13 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 14 | Dr Tom Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four young women at the London premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 15 | Courtney was sentenced to just seven years for drugging and assaulting four trusting young women at the Harley Street premises where he practised as a gynaecologist . |
| 16 | He was sentenced to just seven years . |
| 17 | Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes . |
| 18 | The woman suffered broken bones , and was robbed of just sixty pounds . |
| 19 | A taxi driver has been hijacked , beaten up and driven a hundred miles to London , where he was robbed of just twelve pounds . |
| 20 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 21 | This was done for just 24 of the stimuli , all showing junctions . |
| 22 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 23 | She thought she was peaking at just the right time for her battle of the sexes match with Jimmy Connors scheduled for Las Vegas on September 24 with a 500,000 dollar first prize . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , I do n't know who initiated the move to adopt a Regional policy of this nature , or why a written policy was decided on just then . |
| 25 | He said the church was built for just £5,700 in 1932 . |
| 26 | Prior to the nineteenth century the English word " family " was used in just this way to denote the members of a household , especially the servants , who , in the more affluent social classes , always greatly outnumbered the inner kin-group of parents and children . |
| 27 | The Royal Victoria patriotic Building in Wandsworth , having suffered dreadfully from a fire , was sold for just £1 and considered to have no possible use . |
| 28 | In the major eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783 over 10 km 3 of lava was produced in just 50 days , and it spread to eventually cover an area of 370 km 2 . |
| 29 | After 10 years , however , Hoffman was bankrupt , and the brewery was bought for just £2,420 by Philip Betts Blake and James Mann , partners in a brewery in Lambeth . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought I was going to just keel over on to your shoulder and blurt it out : I love you , I love you … ’ |