Example sentences of "[noun] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | their heads just big enough to hold one thought … |
| 2 | We have a sister house in Hainault just outside Dordrecht . |
| 3 | When this sustained-release bolus is administered to calves just prior to turn-out , it prevents the development of infections acquired from overwintered larvae and so prevents the deposition of eggs during the spring . |
| 4 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
| 5 | I then knit a piece of lace fabric just wide enough to stretch round the base of the cone and long enough to cover it . |
| 6 | Cut the hole at each side just sufficient to allow the patch to be passed through . |
| 7 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
| 8 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 9 | Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface . |
| 10 | ARE Soaps just right or do you think we need more fun ? |
| 11 | If you 're turn if you go past the swimming baths just past swimming baths and the fork the fork there on your right you take that one . |
| 12 | The conversion was from the left and well to the left , but kicker Missimo Bonomi waited until the charging Irish seven were almost on top of him before sending a high , curling attempt just wide of the posts . |
| 13 | Old ‘ n ’ new mix just right Del Amitri : Middlesbrough Town Hall IT 'S been a while since Del Amitri toured and with current single Always The Last To Know nudging it 's way up the charts , I was pleased to see that the band have n't lost either their raw edge or their well developed sense of humour . |
| 14 | A family with a rounded flat disk covered by small imbricating plates amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates usually distinct ; the radial shields small , length less than half the radius of the disk , well separated from one another ; the jaw broader or as broad as long ; usually one sometimes two apical papillae flanked by 5–7 oral papillae on each side the distalmost slightly curved and extending beneath the largest oral papilla just proximal to it , it is possible that this distalmost papillae is part of the second oral tentacle pore ; the adoral shields large and wing-like ; the oral shield large , rounded triangular or arrow shaped , usually longer than broad ; the arms long and slender ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates well developed and contiguous at least proximally ; the tentacle pores moderately large each armed with one or two flat leaf-like tentacle scales ; usually three times long , erect arm spines , equal in length to two arm segments . |
| 15 | The co-pilot sits on a jump seat just aft of the pedestal , from where he operates all of the normal controls within reach , and indicates those out of reach to the instructor . |
| 16 | These segmental blocks of paraxial mesoderm form in an orderly craniocaudal sequence beginning on the 9th day , new somites being added to the pre-existing columns from the unsegmented plate of mesoderm just anterior to the primitive streak . |
| 17 | The big striker made amends just short of the hour , blasting the ball all through the Coleraine defences for his 19th goal of the season , the culmination of good work down the right by Barry Patton . |
| 18 | Men courted her constantly , taking off their riding wigs just short of the lime avenue and putting on their grand ceremonial perukes which their servants carried in bandboxes on the pommel of their saddles , ‘ duly prepared for an attack on the heart of the young heiress ’ . |
| 19 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 20 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
| 21 | Were the Belfast and District Club just glad to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible ? |
| 22 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 23 | Folly looked back at the list , but the names , in most cases just initial and surname , told her nothing . |
| 24 | All in all , then , claims about women 's conservatism are stereotypical , sexist and in many cases just plain wrong . |
| 25 | She covered it with her other hand , then , fearing that a hot hand might be enervating , she opened her fingers just wide enough to let in a little air and light . |
| 26 | They lay quietly , fingers just touching , Carolyn watching the lightshade sway in a slight draught , Alan watching the gentle rise and fall of her ribcage as she breathed . |
| 27 | Yesterday Cleveland Aid Romania co-ordinator Rod Jones , who is hoping to bring Constantin to England in July , said : ‘ He has got hands but he has no fingers just little balls . |
| 28 | Then position your right thumb over the camera button , and rest your index and second fingers just clear of the zoom switches . |
| 29 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
| 30 | Ma , ma just killed man , I 've given him some |