Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] just [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But for the moment these designs remain just that : the experts are still trying to sort out the answers that chickens have given them and , until they do , can not finalise a commercial prototype for improved cages .
2 The pre-modern relationship which prevailed for centuries has just as enduring an influence .
3 What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it .
4 The pilot should be able to feel the geometric lock operating just after the airbrakes are flush with the wing surface .
5 If a cable break occurs just after the glider has left the ground , care must be taken not to overdo the lowering of the nose and fly into the ground .
6 Very often arrears mounted just when borrowers were least able to cope with the situation ; they felt vulnerable and confused .
7 Dennis arrived just before the clock chimed the hour .
8 James Halden returned just as she was finishing the last frill , and she jumped up as soon as she heard his steps on the stair .
9 They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work .
10 The artist of the red dot work may have dropped the dot onto the large white area from 20 metres with an uncertain gusty wind blowing just as the handbag may have been dropped onto the seat from an overladen pair of hands .
11 This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ .
12 On the day of the marriage , Ben arrives just as the couple are pronounced man and wife , taking the unreluctant Elaine away with him .
13 This fresh blow came just as Exxon felt it was struggling free from the morass of the Alaskan spill .
14 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
15 The pain barriers appear just as in marathon running and , as in other endurance sports , many people withdraw , suffering from either dehydration or cramp .
16 You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over .
17 They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient .
18 Gray gets just as incensed when people criticise Wright 's character .
19 ‘ Social services would n't dream of institutionalising a child at six , yet in this country parents do just that by sending many boys of that age to prep school . ’
20 Who wants the telephone to ring just when he 's concentrating on slitting his jugular ? ’
21 Whether this new investigation has been ordered partly as a response to the assertions made by the New York firm of O'Toole-Ewald Arts Associates , whose services Goldreyer engaged just after the first report was released by the Rijswijk laboratories , is not certain .
22 An interaction exists just as it does in river processes .
23 We 've now moved on in part of question your question five B and erm in my response to that I 'm suggesting , and I hope it 's not just semantics , picking up the point made just before we broke for coffee , is that there 's all sorts of things called the countryside , and this policy is is directed at the open countryside .
24 But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne .
25 The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement .
26 The postman came just as the grownups were moving into the parlour .
27 The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit .
28 The thing that made the turning point happened just as we were leaving .
29 The principal British rival to the BBC has faced an uncertain future , with costs rising just as recession was slashing into advertising .
30 More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face .
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