Example sentences of "[be] just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His anger had been just barely visible to a carefully watching eye . |
| 2 | Imports have been just over £100 million . |
| 3 | However odd Stubbly 's behaviour had been just lately , I was relying on his basic northern canniness to keep to some vestige of normalcy when it came to money . |
| 4 | Instantly Leith 's thoughts flew to her own mother and how , should she ever see Sebastian looking as drawn and haggard as Travis had been just lately , she would more than likely be halfway demented too . |
| 5 | But it had been just just a wee little village then . |
| 6 | If Claudine had been just slightly nicer , Jenna would have felt sorry for her . |
| 7 | Well they must have been just well they must have I did n't see them |
| 8 | There may have only been just under 500 runners , and it may never rival the London Marathon , but it was good to see this significant part of the running world back on the map again . |
| 9 | Under Labour , between 1964 and 1970 and again between 1974 and 1979 , a total of 295 pits were shut down ; since 1979 , there have been just under 140 closures . |
| 10 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 11 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 12 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 13 | She had always been surrounded by people — and was still haunted by memories and bad dreams — but essentially had been just as solitary . |
| 14 | The precociousness of his talent now seems to have been just as well , because by time he left his native land , aged eighteen , more than a third of his life was already gone . |
| 15 | At the same time the decline of the small manufacturing firm has been just as dramatic . |
| 16 | Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories ! |
| 17 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 18 | The expression ‘ appropriates without the consent of the owner ’ would have been just as inept as ‘ converts without the consent of the owner . ’ |
| 19 | You would think that , I think that the people in in your hospice would have been just as happy to see somebody from Eastenders and you would n't have to pay for |
| 20 | The local centrifugal movements have been just as selective in their social composition as the longer-distance transfers involved in the urban-rural shift and North-South drift , indeed probably even more so . |
| 21 | But I 've been just as happy lying , through the long June evenings , on her mother 's grave , and looking forward to the moment when I can join Catherine there ! |
| 22 | Getting used to an all-female environment must have been just as much a shock for Eva . |
| 23 | It had been just as much his fault . |
| 24 | The issue of nuclear and chemical weapons has been just as embattled as that of the Kurds , but this time the protagonists were the UN and the Iraqi government . |
| 25 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 26 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 27 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 28 | She was n't sure how annoyed he had been just then . |
| 29 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
| 30 | It 's more than a little apt for its group finance director , since he could have been just about anything he wanted in life , and what 's more , he confesses , he was almost a politician . |