Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years back , when the scale of the problem that AIDS would represent was just becoming clear , a senior civil servant tried unsuccessfully to nudge the Government about the need for a policy to handle the impending crisis . |
| 2 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 3 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 4 | The best the top performing expert could manage was just over £80 . |
| 5 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 6 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 7 | Getting used to an all-female environment must have been just as much a shock for Eva . |
| 8 | You would think that , I think that the people in in your hospice would have been just as happy to see somebody from Eastenders and you would n't have to pay for |
| 9 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 10 | Bump , bump , it went , not spectacularly , but in the unmistakable manner of a big bream , which any big bream angler will confirm is just as heart-stopping as any run from a harder fighting fish . |