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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Cut the hole at each side just sufficient to allow the patch to be passed through .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 19 year old Barbara Griffiths from Middlesex , won the 17th annual British Women 's Tennis Association tournament which was held at the Queen 's Club just prior to Christmas .
13 Were the Belfast and District Club just glad to get the whole thing over as quickly as possible ?
14 Unbroken , that is , except for a tiny barn , a grey stone speck just visible on the last airy swell hundreds of feet up where the hillside joined the moorland above .
15 The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting .
16 And that was was that was the camp just right on the Lyness Fell .
17 Leave the corner strip just visible
18 A MORE considered , romantic and melancholy version of the above , with Henry Fonda 's Wyatt Earp cleaning up the nightmarish town of Tombstone , making the community safe for the church-going , square-dancing just plain folks who have been hiding in the shadows while the Clanton gang runs riot .
19 They sailed overhead and swayed with the slightly erratic action of the cableway holding them , bumping into each other now and again and so producing the clinking noise just audible over the din .
20 ‘ I knew he would get the humour and the pathos just right and I was proved correct .
21 When Ian told his wife about the school experience just detailed , Katy said she could hardly believe it mattered that much .
22 Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm .
23 Yanto brought the overloaded bike to a skidding halt just short of the sharply rising earth bank , the other side of which lay the muddy banks of the river .
24 The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank .
25 Here , there is no village just marvellous countryside and stunning views .
26 One of the neighbours told officers he saw two youths running away from the scene just prior to the fire being discovered .
27 Did Dundee United play out of their skins , or were Thistle just diabolical ?
28 Darren Beckford had a snapshot brilliantly parried by Hallworth , then Fox saw a lob of his own dance just wide .
29 It is nearly always female and her voice is usually heard wailing near the family 's ancestral home just prior to a person 's death .
30 The Nitsa has its own snackbar and there 's an excellent bar just opposite called Tropicana which is a favourite with Club 18–30 holidaymakers serving a great English breakfast and a good variety of snacks all day .
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