Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [be] just " in BNC.

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1 Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall .
2 And the couple can look forward to more proud moments in the future , Antony their youngest son says when he grows up he wants to be soldier and be just as brave as his dad .
3 She had braked the pram outside a newsagent and was just stooping to pick up Charlotte and take her inside for the chocolate , when she thought : I must n't .
4 The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information .
5 900 x 16 are not a practical proposition on a SWB they limit the lock and are just too big for the wheel arches .
6 He was on crutches for three or four months and was just beginning to recover when a stomach malignancy had to be treated by very extensive surgery .
7 Over the final 40 metres Louise closed the gap and was just first to the touch in 1.14.55 .
8 Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London .
9 I went up to his suite at the Monogram and was just opening my sample case when , imagine my surprise … ’
10 The Americans love their sport and are just as fervent and passionate , but they have made their stadiums comfortable and safe and also an outing for the family .
11 It gets more stimulus and is just altogether happier .
12 The chart , carelessly applied , using the wrong sightings off the wrong landmarks could lead us into error and be just as dangerous as ignoring it completely .
13 Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash .
14 Climbed a very high hill today called An Teallach and am just starting to recover now .
15 I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered .
16 ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting .
17 Mr Calvert , whose home backs on to the churchyard and is just 100ft from the bell tower , was at Exeter County Court yesterday to seek an injunction restricting bell ringing to church services .
18 Later she had a full mastectomy and was just getting over that when they discovered the cancer had spread to her bones .
19 Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion .
20 Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left .
21 Go out into town and be just like the other men , I 'm tired of monkeying around .
22 Back in Saxon times they were used as diuretics and were just one of dozens of herbs , plants and berries taken for medical purposes .
23 Probably in this case ( as in many others ) the parties and their lawyers were not familiar with the distinction and were just confused , and may not even have realised that there is a distinction .
24 Simply by reminding himself of this fact , he felt inspired by a new confidence and was just about to lift Cleo physically from her seat when yet another resident of the house made an appearance .
25 He followed the sound and was just in time to see the gunman climbing a wire fence at the end of an adjoining alleyway .
26 Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness .
27 Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business .
28 Observations can not be described or predicted beyond a certain point but are just arbitrary .
29 The club was expected to give him a run next week in one of two friendlies against non-League opposition , but last night coach Eddie May said : ‘ He is a good lad but is just a non-starter now .
30 A bald answer to a problem , even though correct , will not earn many ( perhaps not any ) marks , because the examiner can not tell whether the student has knowledge or is just guessing .
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