Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] just " in BNC.

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1 In outlining these differences and their bases , the goal has been not just to present some geographical details but rather to exemplify a more general point with regard to the collective organization of survival .
2 What matters is not just what Parliament decides but how it decides .
3 The control is n't some detail , Cameron … knowing it 's somebody you can trust is n't just by-the-way ; it 's everything . ’
4 Driving is not just an ‘ up arrow ’ to go forward etc — the tracks are controlled separately by four keys ie right and left , and backwards/forwards .
5 It was risky , especially considering he 'd been out just that previous evening , putting sugar in car and motorbike petrol tanks , but it might be a good idea anyway .
6 What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place .
7 The problems surrounding the termination of the mentally handicapped are not just moral , but practical and medical .
8 I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me .
9 Unfortunately , he 's in the position whereby , although I have got my work yet the problem I face is not just now , it 's come September , he is in a new school , he 's going to have new people , there 's new teachers , there 's new rules , there 's new policies .
10 Styled is probably just too quirky for some potential users .
11 Screwing 's not just about having babies .
12 But CITES is not just about glamorous mammals .
13 And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further .
14 Some of the passengers must have been up just after dawn to watch the huge liner ease its way gently alongside the dock , and those who were n't were beginning gradually to emerge on the upper decks , or to enjoy breakfast by one of the pools .
15 A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants .
16 But the lifelong affection for Adam 's school of the distinguished scholar Alexander Nequam [ q.v. under Neckam ] , who three decades later was a student there , suggests that John 's criticisms may not have been entirely just .
17 Though I must have been around just at that time , I think .
18 The noises that they produce are not just slightly too high for humans to hear , like a kind of super dog whistle .
19 Using a variety of ordering algorithms which complement one another provides a check that the contigs they produce are not just artifacts .
20 He shows no love in his dictatorial and threatening speech in book five and we can not be expected to suppose , in our first reactions to the text , that what he is doing is altogether just .
21 okay I think what we might think about doing is maybe just having a meeting for an hour one evening on that one subject
22 I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt .
23 The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal .
24 What he denies is not just veteris vestigia flammae but what Racine makes his Phèdre say , in appalled awareness of her own condition : C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée .
25 What emerges is not just a portrait of a great artist but also great campaigner , wife , mother , and human being .
26 ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment .
27 Years later Elizabeth wrote to me : ‘ I felt I was participating in it , not just reading it , and what I felt was n't just admiration … .
28 THE trial of three businessmen accused of exporting arms-making equipment to Iraq turns out to have been not just a farce but a scandal .
29 Most of the problems that are arising are not just because of the Trusts but because of other things like for instance the contracting process that is proposed , the t the changing in the financing that is incorporated and of course the general under-funding which there is within the N H S. These are far more important problems in the long term .
30 The grievances which the commons presented were not just their own but were shared by some amongst the magnates , and it is doubtful whether the commons ' will could have prevailed without this support from amongst the ranks of the nobility .
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