Example sentences of "just [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is not just that dealing with Old Age Pensioners who have reported missing budgies falls outside the definition of what counts as ‘ real ’ police work , the work is also disliked because it is problematic , for policemen need to display competence in the way they convey sympathy while admitting that nothing will be done .
2 A much broader common core has been designed than just that experienced in a formal group setting .
3 It is just that going to the cinema has become inexorably linked with the purchase and consumption of such foods .
4 runs along splash , does n't even make it , make it round , he just and goes like this and then , and then lands in the water like that .
5 In his judgment Lord Denning MR was highly critical of the decision in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent because the agreement there was just and made in good faith .
6 A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants .
7 This is our sixth series and I 'm just as intrigued by other people 's homes as any viewer .
8 The majority of women do undertake paid work in their later middle life , and it can be just as wrenching for them to leave it as for men .
9 I was just as engrossed in the sport 's literature .
10 The idea of biology having important lessons for control is not new , but in this case the Sheffield group would have the willing and enthusiastic support of two control engineers — Harry Nicholson and Vince Femando — who were just as excited about the prospects for collaboration as their new biological colleagues .
11 People here get just as excited about the prospect of buying a new bike as they might a new car .
12 They can feel just as threatened by you and need to have your co-operation as they learn to manage resources and personnel effectively .
13 Among other contributions , Neil Allen looks pityingly at athletics and boxing , and the stink is just as pronounced in soccer .
14 The evidence in Chapter 3 that was taken as counting against Wagner 's analysis of latent inhibition is just as damaging for the interference account developed here .
15 More subtle than corruption , but just as damaging to the judicial process , were variations in court procedure which must have seemed arbitrary to many Sri Lankans .
16 The Stop the M12 group is also opposed to upgrading the A12 , fearing this would be just as damaging to the environment .
17 They have families and mortgages and are just as worried about the possibility of a radiation leak as the next person . ’
18 He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose .
19 Second , because its hidden curriculum can be just as undermining to our real intentions as that of the former withdrawal system .
20 The word is , just as predicted by RW&P in January , that its political volatility has made it untenable as a venue .
21 A theatre packed with enthusiasts , including more than 140 critics from all over the West , shows that the company is just as appreciated by the rest of the world , too .
22 But at 11.20 pm — just as Highlights from Augusta offer relief from a man repeatedly declaring that the second election result may be coming at any minute — Scotland is being indulged with different fare .
23 Remember that a child can be just as upset by the death of a beloved animal as by a human so do your best not to trivialise their grief at such times .
24 Gielgud , too , through the agency of his mother , produced reviews to prove that the golden oldies of the classic past with whom Burton was being compared to his disadvantage had been just as slammed in their time .
25 Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent .
26 The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public .
27 When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy .
28 I do n't think he knows what he 's giving me 'cos you 're just as addicted to them as you are to smack .
29 The latter are quite as real as the former , may have equally far-reaching results and can be just as limiting to the quality of life in the individual concerned .
30 Because that ‘ perfectly ’ , that ‘ here ’ , are just as limiting in their way as ‘ with ’ and ‘ about ’ .
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