Example sentences of "[conj] have just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet . |
| 2 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
| 3 | Perhaps he was still sleepy , or had just indulged in a stultifying beetle meal . |
| 4 | Only last week , I spoke to a garage owner who told me that almost every other customer was either losing a job or had just lost one in the past month or so . |
| 5 | Whatever the situation in which you find yourself living alone ; whether your husband or wife has left you or the children have left home ; whether your husband or wife or elderly parent has died or your flatmate has left ; whether you are starting college or a new job or have just decided to leave the family home , you must accept and make the very best of your new life . |
| 6 | CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement . |
| 7 | She says : ‘ It is a very valuable function because it helps people who are unemployed or have just been made redundant to do something which is worthwhile . |
| 8 | If you are in the grip of an addiction , suffering from a total block ( PUN ! ) or have just mastered all other versions of the game then look no further . |
| 9 | This applies whether you are just rearranging a room , thinking of buying some new items , or have just moved in and are starting from scratch . |
| 10 | Well have you really or have just made it up ? |
| 11 | All three do their best under Penny Ciniewicz 's rather heavy-handed direction , but they can not beat a first play that has just got too much to say . |
| 12 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 13 | But the local-tax fudge is dangerous because it concentrates attention on a great dilemma facing Mr Major : how do you lead a party that has just overthrown Margaret Thatcher ? |
| 14 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 15 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 16 | The department has admitted to a substantial underspend in two important areas or research in the financial year that has just ended . |
| 17 | But it seems more likely that this fear has more to do with the childhood horror of seeing the parent scream at the ‘ smothering ’ cat that has just jumped up on to a cot or bed . |
| 18 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 19 | It is quite incredible what has happened in my life — the help that has just seemed to come , the opportunities that have arisen , doors that have opened in all directions and , if occasionally one closed , it did n't matter because it always meant a better one would open later . |
| 20 | Which is hooey ; for when the thumping result is announced , the House burst into a blast of clapping , happy as a choral society that has just flown through the last tricky chorus . |
| 21 | The group , however , was then almost unrecognisable from the one that has just recently burst back into the FTSE 100 . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's an island not far from here that has just two thousand inhabitants , and last year , Nick , according to a banker I sometimes fly to Miami , those two thousand dirt poor and unemployed islanders deposited 24.3 million dollars in the one and only bank on their impoverished little island . ’ |
| 23 | As he values the entire UK direct sales market at about £1,000m , this means his association already represents 20% of the total — ‘ not bad ’ , he reckons , ‘ for an association that has just been launched ’ . |
| 24 | The court heard only 72 cases in the term that has just ended , compared with twice that number a decade ago . |
| 25 | It has to fend for itself , out of a budget that has just about risen with inflation in recent years . |
| 26 | Britain , the only other EC country not to have implemented all provisions of the directive , is doing so in the Criminal Justice bill that has just come before the House of Commons . |
| 27 | The exhibition that has just opened at the Grand Palais with the title ‘ Les Etrusques et l'Europe ’ therefore has two parts : the world of the ancient Etruscans ; and their latter day reemergence as a cultural influence from 1554 with the discovery of the ‘ Chimera ’ at Arezzo ( which immediately entered the Medici collections ) . |
| 28 | It allows us the conclusion that has just been contemplated : that the difference between causal items and their effects has its basis not only in the consideration that causal circumstances fix uniquely the occurrence of their effects , but also in the consideration that causal circumstances precede their effects . |
| 29 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 30 | There we have in one of its aspects the likeness of the old country society that has just passed away to the society described by Chaucer : a cool , matter-of-fact treatment of a subject that could have so many overtones . |