Example sentences of "just [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking . |
| 2 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 3 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 4 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 5 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 6 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 7 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
| 8 | He does n't believe in Arnold Bros but he likes to think Arnold Bros exists just so that he can go on not believing in him . |
| 9 | But how 's about a drive round the island — just so that you can see for yourself what it 's like . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just so that we do n't overtax young Jimbo 's powers of resistance . ’ |
| 11 | as if Hitler had arranged this old war for their benefit , just so that Carrie and Nick could be sent away in a train with gas masks slung over their shoulders and their names on cards round their necks . |
| 12 | Go back to what I asked Terry about , just so that you 're in the picture really . |
| 13 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 14 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 15 | Just so that we can get the erm that sentence in context . |
| 16 | Tied cottages also depressed farm wages , making farm workers unable to afford council house rents-Thus , the rents could not be lowered without raising the rates , while farmers were not going voluntarily to raise wages just so that their workers could afford to live in council houses . |
| 17 | Put a band on , just so that we do n't you know , erm squash their hair . |
| 18 | Just so that we do n't get any products on the clothes . |
| 19 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 20 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 21 | ‘ Just so that you 'd have a good excuse for keeping me a prisoner here ? ’ |
| 22 | I need a slow , sedentary number now , just so that I can get my breath back . ’ |
| 23 | I let myself think I might adopt him — oh , not altogether , but just so that he could come and stay with me sometimes and I could do things for him . |
| 24 | It was then withdrawn and another Bill was introduced , just so that we could have a crackdown on dangerous dogs . |
| 25 | This government is actually cutting back on everything here just so that the French farmers and the mafia can live in the manner to which they 've become accustomed , Douglas . |
| 26 | Just so that no one can cut in between us . ’ |
| 27 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 28 | Just , just so that we can erm , make sure for the cabaret committee you have n't given yourself enormous pay rises in the first half can you , can you split out in the corporate expenses less other , what the er , er , profit on the sale of some of your Cedar Fayre investment was ? |
| 29 | Just so that i 'm clear on this ; we are talking about right wing fascist rag THE ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ are we ? |
| 30 | just so that we can try and work it out , so that you know if we are going to , to go to new theatres like , you know , I think the New Travellers is going to be interested |