Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We have more heart and we love our homeland just that extra bit . ’
2 Obviously the progress made in educational thinking just prior to 1973 , and in its interpretation , had been quite dramatic and the way was clear for the first time to develop long-term objectives for education .
3 I then knit a piece of lace fabric just wide enough to stretch round the base of the cone and long enough to cover it .
4 The negotiations have been carried out with utmost discretion , and involved on the Basque side just two members of the ruling Basque Nationalist Party ( apart from José Ardanza , the Basque government 's president ) and José Alberto Pradena , the governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa , the capital of which is Bilbao .
5 In describing a future coalition government he promised that ‘ we will not give representatives of the other side just two or three armchairs ’ .
6 DARLINGTON 'S dismal season plumbed new depths on Saturday when they were thrashed 83–6 by a Blaydon side just two divisions above them in the Courage League .
7 Cut the hole at each side just sufficient to allow the patch to be passed through .
8 Thomas Dooley scored the Americans ' first goal in 389 minutes of international football just two minutes before half-time .
9 It took the fire brigade just three minutes to arrive at Douglas Reyburn when a twisting frame burst into flames in the early hours of the morning .
10 The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm .
11 Robert Stewart , 28 , of Skipton Green , Low Fell , Gateshead had denied the charge at Newcastle Crown Court , saying he had bought the car just three weeks before being stopped by police and the 351 squares of the drug hidden in fog lamp covers must have been left there by the previous owner .
12 A single-track lane had taken them down through a straggling copse to a brackish meander of the Beaulieu river and Mossop had stopped the car just short of the cottage so they could see the building , the garden , the overgrown jetty which had given it its name and the shadowed finger of the pontoon reaching out into deeper water , without themselves being seen at all .
13 Not for the first time Delaney looked into the eyes that were deep , infathomable pools of green , and at the copper-coloured hair falling around the high smooth cheek bones ; at the small upturned nose and a mouth just large enough to hint at the animal sensuality lying dormant beneath the surface .
14 DEBT-ridden Coalite fuel group Anglo United is on the brink of collapse just six months after wresting a refinancing agreement from its bankers .
15 As a result just one Bq of Caesium-137 , contained in one litre of milk , will undergo a tiny explosion every second ; 60 explosions every minute , 3,600 explosions every hour or a total of three to seven million tiny atomic explosions in its stay in our bodies — any one of which can cause cell mutations which eventually lead to cancer or genetic damage .
16 They clinched the deal for the Norwich defender just six minutes before the deadline .
17 It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years .
18 I speak as a representative who came into the House as a result of the murder just 10 years ago of the then Member for Belfast , South .
19 The conversion was from the left and well to the left , but kicker Missimo Bonomi waited until the charging Irish seven were almost on top of him before sending a high , curling attempt just wide of the posts .
20 Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough .
21 Elizabeth , of Taunton , Somerset , was working as an advertising executive in Durban and had announced her engagement just three days before her death .
22 I 've made more piece just that
23 Old ‘ n ’ new mix just right Del Amitri : Middlesbrough Town Hall IT 'S been a while since Del Amitri toured and with current single Always The Last To Know nudging it 's way up the charts , I was pleased to see that the band have n't lost either their raw edge or their well developed sense of humour .
24 Mansell also breached a race rule just 15 laps in , had a puncture , clipped a barrier wall and left a streak of burning rubber when he roared out of the pits on cold tyres .
25 A family with a rounded flat disk covered by small imbricating plates amongst which the centrodorsal and primary plates usually distinct ; the radial shields small , length less than half the radius of the disk , well separated from one another ; the jaw broader or as broad as long ; usually one sometimes two apical papillae flanked by 5–7 oral papillae on each side the distalmost slightly curved and extending beneath the largest oral papilla just proximal to it , it is possible that this distalmost papillae is part of the second oral tentacle pore ; the adoral shields large and wing-like ; the oral shield large , rounded triangular or arrow shaped , usually longer than broad ; the arms long and slender ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates well developed and contiguous at least proximally ; the tentacle pores moderately large each armed with one or two flat leaf-like tentacle scales ; usually three times long , erect arm spines , equal in length to two arm segments .
26 The co-pilot sits on a jump seat just aft of the pedestal , from where he operates all of the normal controls within reach , and indicates those out of reach to the instructor .
27 These segmental blocks of paraxial mesoderm form in an orderly craniocaudal sequence beginning on the 9th day , new somites being added to the pre-existing columns from the unsegmented plate of mesoderm just anterior to the primitive streak .
28 Both Paschero and Masi think that disorders in the spiritual sphere underlie all chronic conditions , but while Orthega argues that several different remedies may have to be used before the patient can be cured , treating each layer as it presents rather like peeling an onion , both Paschero and Masi advocate just one remedy for each patient and consider that the patient does not change the chronic remedy at all throughout life .
29 Horne heard a sound , jumped up in terror and stared at the apparition just next to the old wall .
30 It was never a classic encounter , but Colchester 's greater motivation kept them running hard and reaching half-time just one goal behind was a huge bonus .
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