Example sentences of "the [noun pl] just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 2 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 3 | We fill thought space but do n't forget there are a lot of creative people preparing the programmes just to ensure there will be an adequate choice . |
| 4 | However , it is necessary to undergo the appropriate socialization in the institutions just mentioned to gain acceptance in either of these groups . |
| 5 | You stop at the top of the road and look back , to see the flames just starting to become visible over the edge of the hotel roof , dancing orange into the night . |
| 6 | Unlike the ancient hill paintings the abstract pan does n't have any great meaning … the artists just hope it turns a few heads . |
| 7 | With the views just described it is possible to perform many queries on LIFESPAN information and produce complex reports . |
| 8 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 9 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 10 | They ordered calvados and played canards , dipping the sugar cubes in the tawny liquid so that the surfaces just met , the liqueur drawn up through the sugar , flushing and softening it until at just the right moment , a split second before the sweetness might dissolve and fall into the drink and spoil it , you tipped your head back and took the lump on your tongue and either let it melt there , or gnashed the singingly sweet grit of the sugar grains . |
| 11 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 12 | For the reasons just described . |
| 13 | In the case of television sets the wheel has turned full circle , from intensive distribution to selective distribution ( for the reasons just mentioned ) and back to intensive distribution . |
| 14 | She was breathing so quietly I could hardly see the rise and fall of her breasts , and those lips of hers looking fuller than I remembered , the mouth wider , and the line of the teeth just showing very white . |
| 15 | ln all the ballets just mentioned not one makes use of the purely classical technique with its severe class-room discipline . |
| 16 | A human family would never return to such a scene of grisly death , but the owls just took it all calmly . |
| 17 | first , there is the possibility , acknowledged by several of the experimenters just cited , that subjects told merely to observe the stimuli might actually come to attach their own labels to them . |
| 18 | We could stop after one pass through the data , but we can also repeat the running three-median procedure on the values just smoothed to produce a smoother result . |
| 19 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 20 | Yes , but do you know , in Gabby 's in , they had to , to , the builders just gave what they want , and all your residents , they took them to court and they had , eh |
| 21 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 22 | The goals just keep coming . ’ |
| 23 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 24 | ‘ I was passing Slough and the brakes just refused to work . |
| 25 | ‘ I was passing Slough and the brakes just refused to work . |
| 26 | Is part of the problem that the schools just do n't communicate with the parents ? |
| 27 | ‘ The importers just rang to say their shipments have been held up in Delhi . |
| 28 | The influences just outlined are in most cases the more important ones but they are by no means the only ones — nor are they exclusive . |
| 29 | ‘ But for days after Cpl Edwards was killed the lads just ignored the children . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the lads just chuck the bike in the corner from one meeting to the next , others treat them like it was a grand prix . |