Example sentences of "was [verb] to just " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was sentenced to just seven years . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I was going to just keel over on to your shoulder and blurt it out : I love you , I love you … ’ |
| 10 | The societies ' worst point came in 1987 when their market share was reduced to just under 50 per cent ; the banks had 34.5 per cent and other finance companies 16.3 per cent . |
| 11 | In the Philippines 34.6 million acres of rainforest was reduced to just 5.4 million acres by logging programmes during the corrupt Marcos regime . |
| 12 | but erm I do n't think Joan , at the time , last night , Joan said that she was a bit too tired to Bob was having to just fit in with that so I do n't know what they 're gon na do . |
| 13 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 14 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |
| 15 | I know it was , it was changed to just over six pounds last year . |