Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education . |
| 2 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
| 3 | A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all . |
| 4 | The conversion was from the left and well to the left , but kicker Missimo Bonomi waited until the charging Irish seven were almost on top of him before sending a high , curling attempt just wide of the posts . |
| 5 | A family with a rounded flat disk covered by small imbricating plates amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates usually distinct ; the radial shields small , length less than half the radius of the disk , well separated from one another ; the jaw broader or as broad as long ; usually one sometimes two apical papillae flanked by 5–7 oral papillae on each side the distalmost slightly curved and extending beneath the largest oral papilla just proximal to it , it is possible that this distalmost papillae is part of the second oral tentacle pore ; the adoral shields large and wing-like ; the oral shield large , rounded triangular or arrow shaped , usually longer than broad ; the arms long and slender ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates well developed and contiguous at least proximally ; the tentacle pores moderately large each armed with one or two flat leaf-like tentacle scales ; usually three times long , erect arm spines , equal in length to two arm segments . |
| 6 | The co-pilot sits on a jump seat just aft of the pedestal , from where he operates all of the normal controls within reach , and indicates those out of reach to the instructor . |
| 7 | These segmental blocks of paraxial mesoderm form in an orderly craniocaudal sequence beginning on the 9th day , new somites being added to the pre-existing columns from the unsegmented plate of mesoderm just anterior to the primitive streak . |
| 8 | 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas . |
| 9 | Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above . |
| 10 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
| 11 | And that was was that was the camp just right on the Lyness Fell . |
| 12 | They sailed overhead and swayed with the slightly erratic action of the cableway holding them , bumping into each other now and again and so producing the clinking noise just audible over the din . |
| 13 | Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river . |
| 14 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 15 | One of the neighbours told officers he saw two youths running away from the scene just prior to the fire being discovered . |
| 16 | It is nearly always female and her voice is usually heard wailing near the family 's ancestral home just prior to a person 's death . |
| 17 | The horizon was a dark terracotta colour , the top of the dying sun just visible for a few seconds before it dropped out of sight and the sky doused the remaining light like a heavy black blanket . |
| 18 | Reagan 's television appearances furthermore were carefully scheduled to take place just prior to critical votes on his budgetary and tax policy . |
| 19 | Equally , the valuation may take place just prior to the end of the month and deliveries be made after the valuation but before the end of the month . |
| 20 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 21 | Farther north , Fifth Army 's forces had advanced astride the Ypres-Roulers railway to a point just short of Zonnebeke . |
| 22 | In her self-portrait at the Tate Gallery ( c.1930 ) she presents herself as an artist at work with the canvas just perceivable to the right and a brush in hand . |
| 23 | This was the railway which crossed over the Corporation tramway just short of the Selby Road boundary . |
| 24 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
| 25 | TV commentators often assert confidently that a try has been awarded after a tackle just short of the line because the player 's ‘ momentum ’ took him over . |
| 26 | ‘ A single wound of entry situated in the right parietal bone just anterior to the lambdoid suture and close to the saggital suture . |
| 27 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 28 | Merseyside Healthwise doctor Jenny Hopwood says women should not be frightened of Toxic Shock Syndrome just aware of it . |
| 29 | It would be convenient to be able to write an instruction to add into the accumulator the contents of store address 99 , and to have some automatic means for modifying the instruction just prior to its execution , so that it refers successively to addresses 100 , 101 , 102 , and so on . |
| 30 | In the twentieth minute Milton made a rare forage forward and Wayne Morton headed Neil Allen 's free kick just wide of the post . |