Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just like it does not allow us to sing an old song that was sung often , Show Me The Road And The Miles To Dundee perhaps that 's the song we should be singing just now in these particular circumstances and be it the day , maybe even in Portsmouth this particular day . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said simply , and , with a new awareness of how shattering being in love was , she knew something of how very devastated he must be feeling just then . |
| 3 | We might be asked just as well to vote on any three pages picked at random out of ’ Alice in Wonderland ’ as on the motions before the House tonight . |
| 4 | you see , so it might be worked just better that way he said , so let Sue have the Monday off . |
| 5 | But the gradualist argument could be applied just as tellingly : chimp-like skull , body size and body build , feet retaining chimp-like features even though the pelvis and lower limbs indicate bipedalism . |
| 6 | It was found that these organising " historical " concepts could be applied just as usefully in the primary school ( albeit in a less sophisticated form ) . |
| 7 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 8 | People who challenge the assumption that much of what a house officer does could be done just as well by someone without a medical qualification may be surprised to learn that in Taunton and Cheltenham nurse practitioners are already working as house officers on two surgical firms ( box ) . |
| 9 | All those calculations about packing the New Testament into the DNA of a single bacterium could be done just as impressively for almost any crystal . |
| 10 | They could be working just as hard , but Vijay 's there for everyone to see , on the range at every tournament for hours . |
| 11 | This would be the most natural way of questioning any of the predicative adjectives in ( 30 ) — and could be used just as well for the second and third cases of ( 28 ) : ( 30 ) his accountant was sensible Helen 's profile is striking the new coin is octagonal Just as the contrast between how ? and which ? reflects the contrast of structural position between postnominal attributive and predicate qualifier , so the contrast of question words between how ? and what ? or what … like ? allows us to infer that an adjective in ordinary predicative position is not a plausible origin for the predicate qualifier . |
| 12 | It may be signed just before , or even during , the London summit meeting of the Group of Seven leaders in July . |
| 13 | Mine went up with , you know let's face it if I was doing sixty mile an hour it would be doing just over six grand . |
| 14 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 15 | But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop . |
| 16 | The Government says that the work can be done just as efficiently at a bigger office in Wolverhampton , 50 miles away . |
| 17 | It can be applied just as readily to cases in which the associates are non-verbal responses or ( as may happen with classical conditioning ) not necessarily responses at all but representations of other stimuli . |
| 18 | Still-lifes on tables , dresser tops , window sills and mantelpieces can be improvised just as successfully as those on walls . |
| 19 | The expansion of spacetime can be explained just as reasonably by the effects of a series of ‘ Little Bangs ’ as by that of a single Big Bang . |
| 20 | The other kinds of socially deictic information , however , can be encoded just about anywhere in the linguistic system . |
| 21 | Tables , histograms and graphs can be produced just as easily . |
| 22 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 23 | However , the reason why may lie in the fact that a cricket bat , tennis racket and snooker cue can be used just as adeptly by a left-handed person as a right-hander . |
| 24 | Tongs can be used just as effectively but remember that the larger the barrel , the bigger the curl . |
| 25 | In using the OSO model to restructure industrial support within the DTI , ministers may be attracted by the benefits of devolving other activities the Glasgow experience has shown can be performed just as effectively out of earshot of Big Ben . |
| 26 | If the sun is shining the focal length can be measured just as easily as for a converging lens : the lens is held so that its shadow falls on a sheet of paper . |