Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in some of the nation park sites , permission to take pictures is generally not a requirement , so the photographer may just set up stall , in the fair certainty that he will not be accosted . |
| 2 | Except in some of the nation park sites , permission to take pictures is generally not a requirement , so the photographer may just set up stall , in the fair certainty that he will not be accosted . |
| 3 | Ideally , the toe should just clear the ground by about the thickness of a 10p piece for most clubs ; a 2p for the short irons . |
| 4 | If the cytoplasm of the egg has a well-defined pattern of constituents which determines the later organization of the embryo then cleavage may just be a way of partitioning this cytoplasmic pattern in the egg so that specific constituents go to specific cells . |
| 5 | They include poor handling and breaking in , anxiety or excitement , resentment of a particular form of work or a rider who bumps up and down on the horse 's back , or , of course , the horse may just simply prefer not to be ridden ! |
| 6 | By appealing directly to his fellow-citizens and banking on a generous response , the President may just have gambled correctly . |
| 7 | Some of the tasks , however , may be simply easier by nature than others and a significant result may just indicate , for instance , that it is easier to recognise and report words than trigrams . |
| 8 | Automation may just come into its own as global cross-border trading picks up . |
| 9 | The back-row confrontation might just go the way of Bath with Dave Egerton , Ben Clarke and Andy Robinson looking a superior combination — on paper at least — although Peter Winterbottom , in particular , will want to prove me wrong . |
| 10 | The contest might just be enough to halt temporarily the remorseless shrinkage in numbers that another four or more years in opposition will bring . |
| 11 | MODERN methods of assessing the value of scientific research might just as well not exist as far as British policy makers are concerned . |
| 12 | She did n't much rate her chances of getting hold of the key to Charlie 's desk , but the desk itself was so old and the drawer appeared to be so ill-fitting that a touch of leverage might just spring it open . |
| 13 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 14 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 15 | Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back . |
| 16 | If points on a circle were not equidistant from some fixed point , then that figure would just not be a Euclidean circle . |
| 17 | The result will just be massive congestion in the middle of the field . |
| 18 | That tooth will just have to wait for California , along with everything else . |
| 19 | If you do n't tension the boom bang when you 're sailing off wind , the boom will just lift , the sail roll twist and you 'll get bags of uncontrollable power . |
| 20 | But , in fact , virtually no behavioural tendency which constitutes genuine action can just show up in a cultural context ‘ as itself ’ . |
| 21 | You may not notice this , as there is always a clearance between these magnets and the needles , but this obstruction can just touch the needles and cause slight grating . |
| 22 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 23 | Get them all down and then the person on the quieter entrance can just write them down . |
| 24 | However , specific observations always needs to be related to general claims or GENERALISATIONS , without which the specific can just seem trivial and random . |
| 25 | It had occurred because of an obsessive concern over the possibility that the President 's bid for re-election might just possibly fail . |
| 26 | And do n't forget , Roger , ’ Benjamin added , ‘ with the window slamming shut , the inside latch might just have fallen into place . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd see how quiet she could be — in fact , the big ox might just think he was teaching a statue , male-chauvinist pig that he was . |
| 28 | After all , they were susceptible to stretch and shrinkage and what looked to be a perfect alignment might just as easily evaporate using more precise calculations . |
| 29 | Although our guards said it was irrelevant to our situation , we were worried that any hopes of freedom might just vanish . |
| 30 | My automatic response might just have had something to do with the fire that the Factory had predicted , but deep inside I knew that that was n't all there was to it , and that there was more to come . |