Example sentences of "a [noun sg] just [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wished them both goodnight — very respectable — and drove off back to his home , a big country house in a village just north of the city , called Kahlenbergerdorf . ’ |
| 2 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 3 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 4 | Clouds still heaped in the west , but over the crossroads at Quatre Bras , and above a stream just north of Fleurus , the sky was clear as glass . |
| 5 | The vines are in fact situated on a hint of a mound just west of the town , growing at an altitude of between 100 and 105 metres which must be a classic example of frost-prone cultivation . |
| 6 | But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne . |
| 7 | The prototype Apple personal computer was developed by two enthusiasts for their own computer club in a garage in a town just north of San Francisco in California in 1975 , and was sold originally in kit form . |
| 8 | When pale imitations of Greece and left-overs of Strawberry Hill Gothic were the norm , suddenly , on a site just south of Salisbury , with ‘ a magnificent view of the cathedral and city with the River Avon winding through … as advantageous a situation as any in England ’ , there sprang up this towered , monastic , miniature Gothic château . |
| 9 | Serbs were using anti-aircraft machineguns with explosive bullets to shoot at buildings in Bosnian-held Grbavica , a district just south of central Sarajevo . |
| 10 | John was on a train just south of Didcot travelling at over ninety miles an hour when he fell out . |
| 11 | The USA on April 10 issued an injunction against Iraq to cease all military activity north of the 36th parallel , encompassing an area bordered by a line just south of Mosul ( but excluding the oil producing area around Kirkuk ) , and reaching up to the border with Turkey . |
| 12 | Eddie Stratton was sitting on the only chair in a small third-floor room of a hotel just north of Russell Square . |
| 13 | Turania was a region just north of the Oxus . |