Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] just [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 2 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 3 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 4 | Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner . |
| 5 | The point of doing this is not to suggest that Western organizations are just like the modernist ideal type . |
| 6 | The way this business is moving , you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner . |
| 7 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |
| 8 | The Lost Files of Sherlock Homes is just like the classic books and brings the old London atmosphere into your own home . |
| 9 | Preston Street with its many varied restaurants is just around the corner . |
| 10 | Erm schools I think schools is just up your street mainly because erm And I 'll tell you another why I think schools will benefit a lot of people going , first of all it 's a fairly new product so we 're really in the launch up stage . |
| 11 | And one of his wigs was just like her hair — rows of peroxide curls rigid with lacquer . |
| 12 | Local buses stop right outside , and for keen walkers the magnificent ‘ Wild Emperor ’ mountains are just outside the back door . |
| 13 | We can react very quickly to the customers demands — many of our deliveries are just in time — the customers require that , they do n't carry stock . |
| 14 | Constance had reassured them , or so she hoped : she had tried to alleviate their suspicions by explaining that Barbs was just like that . |
| 15 | The cold weather payment scheme is still wholly inadequate , with thousands of pensioners whose incomes are just above the income support level receiving no extra help with their fuel charges . |
| 16 | W.C. Fields used one phrase which I 've always loved — especially after all the years I 've been married — he said , ‘ Elephants are just like women — nice to look at , but who wants to own one ? ’ |
| 17 | With × 7 , Beta and Delta Equulei are just in the field with Epsilon Pegasi . |
| 18 | ‘ Paintings are just like stocks and shares ’ plead Japanese dealers under investigation by tax office |
| 19 | Attractive family run hotel , facing seafront , the Aquarium and Palace Pier , historic Royal Pavilion and famous Lanes are just down the road , Brighton Centre nearby . |
| 20 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 21 | Critics say such efforts are just for show . |
| 22 | These other things are just like pterodactyls . |
| 23 | Whereas these things were just like anything out of the blue and it 's like all what 's what 's coming is n't it ? |
| 24 | The sounds were just below the limit of human hearing . |
| 25 | Do n't you think that a lot of the advertisements are just like advertising today , wanting to sell the garments |
| 26 | Lead acid batteries are just at the moment very heavy compared with petrol , but there are many alternative types of battery being researched . |
| 27 | ‘ The groves were just above the sea , ’ he said . |
| 28 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 29 | He was nursed by his family until the end , and his mother afterwards wrote , ‘ his brothers and sisters were just like strong angels tending a weak one … |
| 30 | He would have said those nomads were just like beetles . ’ |