Example sentences of "[prep] just [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the candlestick is beautiful — dare I say we 've been lusting after just such a one for ages , and now we can enjoy your gift . |
| 2 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 3 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 4 | As Tynyanov puts it , ‘ Since a system is not a free interplay of equal elements but presupposes the foregrounding of one group of elements ( ‘ a dominant ’ ) and the deformation of others , a work becomes literature and acquires its literary function through just this dominant' ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 34 ) . |
| 5 | A meeting to decide next year 's budget is formally about just that — fixing the budget . |
| 6 | Many people are asking worried questions about just that point . |
| 7 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 8 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 9 | All of the foregoing principles apply to any relationship , but we are not talking about just any relationship . |
| 10 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 11 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |
| 12 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 13 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 14 | Perhaps Madame had waited for just such a night . |
| 15 | Of course , nuclear reactors have superbly efficient back-up systems for just such eventualities . |
| 16 | On the following pages we offer a selection of rather special recipes created for just such occasions . |
| 17 | They keep a video cassette player nearby for just such an eventuality . |
| 18 | Luckily , I had a speech up my sleeve prepared for just such a glorious occasion . |
| 19 | It 's always worth keeping an odd earring , when you 've lost its partner , for just such projects . |
| 20 | If one nest is threatened he will often roll the eggs , one at a time , for quite long distances across the lily leaves until he reaches a reserve nest built for just such an emergency . |
| 21 | Barlow ( 1985 ) has argued very strongly for just such a model . |
| 22 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 23 | Uptown , additional space comes from the Monitor Building , which has been cleared of offices , and from the new ten-storey Tower , designed by Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel and raised on foundations laid by the museum 's architect Frank Lloyd Wright for just such a purpose . |
| 24 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |
| 25 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 26 | In many ways the time is right — fiftieth anniversary , uncertainties in the world , French self-examination and so on — for just such a movie . |
| 27 | When they were about 2 weeks old and measured about ⅓″ ( total length ) I decided to conduct an experiment to see how they would react to a shell ; I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment . |
| 28 | An independent manager would have been fighting on behalf of his artist for just such a concession ; but for a manager who owned the record company , that meant arguing against himself . |
| 29 | It was for just such occasions that Martha kept her best china locked securely in the glass cabinet and saved to get the front room furnished ‘ fit for visitors ’ . |
| 30 | It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’ |