Example sentences of "just [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He 's just so odd that boy , he just flirts with everything and everyone in sight , do n't you reckon ?
2 ‘ You would have seen them together a fair bit and it 's just so sad this should happen while they were on holiday . ’
3 just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time
4 I am just so wary all the time .
5 It 's just not state-of-the-art any more , life .
6 Just just scrappy old blue looks like something the art college has knocked up .
7 John Major 's inestimable contribution was to allow people to vote Conservative and still feel they were just about decent human beings .
8 ‘ Not Dynasty -type scripts , just about normal working class families and things that have happened to me ’
9 Adams added : ‘ I am just about stony broke . ’
10 There is a great deal within that framework er , it 's not just about closing elderly persons homes , it 's not just about refurbishment it 's about resources and it 's resources that we 're very short of , to implement the sort of care programme that this council should be addressing .
11 Maybe we 're just damn fucking nosy .
12 A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago .
13 In Filmer 's view , just as absolute political power was given to Adam by God , so the whole earth was given him too ; hence , subjects have neither political power nor any right to property and possessions .
14 Dutch Gouda , by the way , makes just as good Welsh Rabbit as French Port-Salut ; and there is always Caerphilly from Somerset , not to mention the Caerphilly ( it may , I think , have now vanished ) made by Irish nuns — not I fancy in this case German parachutists .
15 Steam cleaning can be just as effective outside as in .
16 And just as late Palaeolithic and early Neolithic cultures demonstrated their difficulty in detaching themselves from the primal mother of the previous epoch , so modern youth expresses its inability to surmount the oral attachment by coupling its parricidal protest against authority with a simultaneous and equally insistent demand for welfare .
17 And just as bloody tight !
18 It , it 's just as bloody bad now .
19 Oh it 's just as bloody bad there .
20 But just as black British musicians have developed the confidence to create their own sound independent of Jamaica or the USA , a new generation of black novelists is now emerging , dedicated to telling their own stories in their own style .
21 Thus , just as present-day phonological variation can be used as a clue to change in progress , so it may be possible here to use orthographic variation in the same way .
22 Just as different theoretical schools within each of the social sciences , as well as the disciplines themselves , have various views about the nature of human behaviour , how it is conceptualised and conceived , the way in which this should be investigated , then they will also have different ideas about what sorts of things are to count as data .
23 in other words it 's just as bad good
24 A dish in any Pacific city east of the longitude of Mexico City — Lima , say , or Quito , or Santiago — will be cranked down in the direction of an equally low point on the eastern horizon — for just as American naval vessels involved in exercises off the Pacific coasts of Peru , Ecuador or Chile are regarded as being part of the US Atlantic Fleet , so communicators , for reasons of pure geometry , think of these countries ' capital cities as part of the Atlantic communications network .
25 Not just as squeaky clean , boring Ewan Famber but as a man .
26 A spokesman said : The traffic on the M4 is just as busy early in the summer as it is in August , and we wanted to get on with the work before the autumn to take advantage of the longer days and better weather .
27 Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice .
28 This will bring about an increase in the number of high-capacity international links , just as domestic high-capacity links have become more common in the UK and the US .
29 It 's hard to describe just how wearisome all this is in performance .
30 I wonder just how easy this is when so many record companies are spreading their nets far and wide to find just the right location for an increasingly varied range of repertoire commitments .
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