Example sentences of "[vb -s] just the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shift operator adds just the right amount of vitamins to the mix . |
| 2 | Noel Bridgeman 's piano accordion takes over where Dooley Wilson 's piano left off , and adds just the right ingredient . |
| 3 | Being the hostess calls for something a bit more exciting and this Christmas marabou feather trim adds just the festive touch |
| 4 | He stands over 13.2hh now and has just the right mixture of quality and substance . |
| 5 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 6 | The neck has just the right amount of forward relief , and needs no adjustment to the truss rod . |
| 7 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 8 | The best Corinthian work of the seventh century , with its tense strength and controlled balance of decorative and representational , has just the same character as the great bronze griffin-heads . |
| 9 | ‘ The one at Porton Down has just the same safety device . |
| 10 | Bottle-wrack 's reproductive habit has exactly the effect of increasing this ratio ; splurge-weed 's habit has just the opposite effect . |
| 11 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 12 | ‘ You British people , ’ he said , ‘ come to our country , you take it over , you make us learn your language , you teach us your history which is full of your own struggles for freedom , you teach us your literature which enshrines just the same principles of freedom , and then you expect us not to want freedom ! |
| 13 | Gibson is particularly enticing in the Larghetto concertante of the Symphony in C , which has a persuasively light touch , and finds just the right degree and genial gruffness for the Allegretto . |
| 14 | Figure 5.7 presents just the basic grid . |
| 15 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |
| 16 | As darkness falls just the odd rockling and pouting are left . |
| 17 | For instance , the foreign in foreign policy is the same foreign as in foreign goods ( where the adjective is ascriptive ) ; likewise the associative abdominal of abdominal support expresses just the same idea as does the ascriptive adjective in : ( 16 ) this abdominal region is naturally more sensitive than the upper arm Similarly , in ( 9 ) we saw an alteration in the meaning of the noun qualified , but there was no reason to suspect the word Italian in itself of contributing two different values in the cases where it is used adjectivally . |
| 18 | Bromberg gives just the right amount of scientific explanation . |
| 19 | You prove to me that it gives just the very impression I desired . |
| 20 | The bountiful buffet breakfast served each morning sets just the right note to start the day by the fresh-water swimming pool . |
| 21 | The Menuetto , with its return to the bright light of day , brings a delightfully ebullient trio , and he catches just the right note of spontaneous unpredictability in the finale . |
| 22 | And assistant boss John McVeigh reckons the 24-year-old does just the same job at Broomfield as Rangers ' European Cup hero . |
| 23 | The Earth , then , provides just the right conditions for life to persist . |