Example sentences of "on just [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In fact the share price rose 15p yesterday on just such hopes despite the fact that the results were much worse than expected ) . |
| 2 | It was there in order that people might have a picnic by a monument , on just such a day as this . |
| 3 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 4 | DEC reckons it can come closer to a unified Unix than any other supplier , and recently as last month freely admitted that its whole strategy is dependent on just such a gameplan ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 5 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 6 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 7 | The grief-stricken old man in blue of the St Rémy days sits head in hand on just such a shining chair by a fire with fragile flames . |
| 8 | I speak from embarrassed experience , having embarked under the nom-de-plume of Evelyn Hervey on just such a foolish enterprise , though I hope frenzied ingenuity will eventually wriggle me out of too much trouble . |
| 9 | President Kennedy sent a telegram , Richard Nixon praised ‘ one of those who began with nothing but his own ability , and achieved greatness on just that ’ . |
| 10 | The National Security Council , they insist , hums with meetings on just this , but the meetings can not get very far until more is known about how the post-war world looks . |
| 11 | In the eye of the Common Law there is plenty of land as good elsewhere ; but the purchaser has set his heart on just this piece of land , and damages ( even if liberally assessed , which is not always the case ) are not what he wants . |
| 12 | One Jacobean preacher vividly elaborated on just this text . |
| 13 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 14 | Most of the possible legal moves in a chess position have simple refutations ; refusing to go beyond those refutations should allow a machine to screen out enormous numbers of possibilities , and focus its evaluating time on just those moves about which there are serious questions . |
| 15 | These are our comments on just some of the things on our list . |