Example sentences of "have just [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the answer that he has just given is further reinforced by the fact that several third-world countries , including some middle eastern countries such as Iraq , Algeria and perhaps Libya , are currently acquiring nuclear weapons ? |
| 2 | The complacency that the Chief Secretary has just demonstrated is way beyond anything that my constituents will understand . |
| 3 | Is he aware that the words he has just used are exactly the same as those that were used by his predecessor just before her Government increased VAT ? |
| 4 | The picture , the acute picture which you 've just seen is virtually exclusively due to the production of a toxin and that toxin produces really a necrotic pharyngitis inflammation of the pharynx associated with necrosis and detachment of what we call the pseudo-membrane . |
| 5 | And Thomas and John Smith , who I 've just mentioned were actually a split family , Thomas Smith was erm so loyal that when the first round of parliament , sorry , when the first Royalist troops came into Oxford , he , as a J P prosecuted some of the citizens who tried to stop them blocking down Botley Bridge as a defence measure . |
| 6 | For what we had just created was not a life but a death , and one that was to take far less than nine months to gestate . |
| 7 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 8 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 9 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 10 | The significance of the objections we have just noted is much more important than might at first appear . |
| 11 | The two speeches which I have just analysed are probably the two greatest ones in the play as they both change the storyline dramatically , but Marc Antony 's speech having the better effect on the plebeians which seems unfair , as he was dishonest and Brutus was n't , yet he won the ‘ word ’ battle and lead on from there to become greater and greater in power . |
| 12 | ‘ What you have just decided is precisely what I decided that morning forty years ago at Neuve Chapelle . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is seeking to disguise the fact that under the Government in which he served the quality of service under the headings that I have just listed was vastly inferior to the quality of service provided under this Government . |
| 14 | The philosophical position I have just outlined is not like a scientific theory : it can not be tested experimentally . |
| 15 | Admittedly , the situation I have just outlined is more apparent in the internal affairs of present-day societies — and even then principally in the Western democracies — than in the relations between nations , in spite of the persistent , and not wholly unsuccessful , attempts to create an effective framework of international law and procedures of negotiation . |
| 16 | A good diagrammatic representation to match the adjectival behaviour we have just specified is not easy to devise . |
| 17 | Figure 4 illustrates that the general equilibrium we have just derived is indeed a stable one . |
| 18 | You would n't just think about it it 's just gone is n't it ? |
| 19 | Would Mrs agree that the resources argument that she 's just used is completely fallacious and would she not accept er that it 's better to spend fifty thousand pounds |
| 20 | it 's just bored is n't it ? |