Example sentences of "that [pron] has just " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The only thing that can be said is that somebody has just snuffed out a very special person who was going to achieve an incredible amount in life .
2 Is my hon. Friend aware that she has just scored a marvellous bull 's eye ?
3 ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’
4 The thick stone walls , solid oak beams , cantilever oak staircase and mullioned windows are all exceptional , and the décor and style of furnishing is so absolutely ‘ right ’ that it is not difficult to imagine that one has just ‘ stepped back in time ’ .
5 Unwanted files are removed by being deposited in a dustbin icon which even bulges to show that something has just been put in it .
6 Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been .
7 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
8 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
9 Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children .
10 The speaker must monitor what it is that he has just said , and determine whether it matches his intentions , while he is uttering his current phrase and monitoring that , and simultaneously planning his next utterance and fitting that into the overall pattern of what he wants to say and monitoring , moreover , not only his own performance but its reception by his hearer .
11 Could my right hon. Friend reinforce the point that he has just made ?
12 I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years .
13 The hon. Gentleman does not need to rely on my words to rebut every word that he has just said ; he need only read the latest edition of the in-house magazine of the Confederation of Health Service Employees , where it is written : ’ The Mid-Glamorgan District Linen Service is efficient because it has no choice .
14 Can the Secretary of State confirm that , notwithstanding the encouraging programme that he has just reported , Nuclear Electric 's directors could not continue to pay the £1 million per day that it costs to continue the Sizewell B construction project if they were not covered by a letter of comfort from the Treasury , without which the company would be technically insolvent ?
15 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the answer that he has just given is further reinforced by the fact that several third-world countries , including some middle eastern countries such as Iraq , Algeria and perhaps Libya , are currently acquiring nuclear weapons ?
16 Can he give any sign of the time scale that he hopes will be achieved and what impact that would have on the energy ratio that he has just quoted ?
17 In the light of that , and of the answer that he has just given , would he care to contrast our policy with that of the Labour party ?
18 Is the Minister aware that he has just admitted that under this Government there has been a trade-off between income tax cuts and increases in VAT ?
19 My right hon. Friend will be aware that the lion 's share of the contracts that he has just announced has been placed with defence factories in the north-west of England , including Lancashire .
20 The answer that he gave my hon. Friend the Member for Dover ( Mr. Shaw ) and the answer that he has just given have comprehensively shot a number of foxes , but one is still up and running .
21 All the increases that he has just quoted — in the number of pupils staying on to the fifth and sixth years and in the number of social workers — are down to the fact that all the regional authorities in Scotland are controlled by the Labour party and they see as their spending priorities the need to create educational opportunities for young people and to provide home helps for old people .
22 I am sure that the House has demonstrated its feelings on the matter in relation to the hon. and learned Gentleman by the reception that he has just received .
23 The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities .
24 But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky .
25 This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance .
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