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

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1 She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall .
2 Some bands think that just playing gigs will be enough to attract a following .
3 The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent .
4 He used a stretched string to plot ray paths that just grazed the book in their transit from the source of the screen .
5 Do n't think that just because a shampoo does n't lather well it is n't doing its job .
6 It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin .
7 His sang-froid comes so naturally that , when death seems imminent , he remarks : ‘ It seems too bad that just when we get to where there 's a fortune in diamonds , the mountain should decide to sit down on it . ’
8 A spiral corkscrew perm that just has to be washed and left for a full-bodied look .
9 I can also get my hair cut , do some gardening , go to an art exhibition — things that just got squeezed out altogether beforehand .
10 A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years .
11 In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type .
12 But all it did was to create a bigger gap that just got bigger and bigger .
13 The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement .
14 The music that just keeps on reinventing itself .
15 ‘ Our results show that just as much effluent can be released from big bales as from clamps and the fines for polluting waterways are just as severe .
16 The umbrella-type hand-brake that just from under the dashboard is something else , however .
17 Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise .
18 Simultaneously the council affirmed that just as the bishops of the great cities of Rome and Syrian Antioch exercised jurisdiction beyond the confines of their own diocese and province , so also the bishop of Alexandria should hold jurisdiction throughout Egypt and Libya .
19 But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges …
20 As early as the 17th minute , Johnson sold McCarthy an extravagant dummy and hit a 20-yard shot that just cleared Digweed 's crossbar .
21 The fact that just on half saw increased income to their business as a benefit from training was one of the best advertisements for the courses .
22 Gillham continues to argue that just as the participant is protected from physical hurt by the parameters of ‘ it 's only a game ’ , so the same protection applies to psychological hurt .
23 As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured .
24 What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch .
25 It 's easy to drift into a system of parental involvement by accident , a system that just seems to grow and be a part of the school which is never reviewed or challenged .
26 There are problems that just ca n't be solved at school or even at LEA levels .
27 Hall , Kaye , and Pearce ( 1985 ) have pointed out that just as latent inhibition can occur during the CS-US pairings of excitatory training ( producing a fully trained CS+ that will form further associations only slowly ) , so latent inhibition can also be expected to occur during inhibitory training .
28 ‘ David , listen I 'm sorry I 'm late , one of those things that just had to be done ; you know I 've got a casting at 1.30 — where would you like to start ? ’
29 What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ?
30 Ironically , Morrissey being a great thinker , The Smiths dilemma shows that just not enough thought is put into rock .
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