Example sentences of "[prep] just this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | For just this reason the issues of The Exile , though they provide only conflicting evidence about Pound 's acumen as an editor , are very instructive about the cast of his sensibility . |
| 3 | Here we see it practising for just this role . |
| 4 | The inmates had rudimentary weapons for just this moment , and Fujimori backed down when they fought the troops . |
| 5 | For example , we know that some people eventually decided not to be recorded because of painful secrets in their lives , while there were others who for just this reason found it helpful to talk : but how far these two groups balance out can only be guessed . |
| 6 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 7 | It is noteworthy , however , that the Royal Society made a plea for just this type of multidisciplinary work in its submission on greenhouse gases to the House of Lords ' Select Committee on Science and Technology ( Royal Society 1989 : 40 ) . |
| 8 | TO MARK the 70th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun 's Tomb , the Egyptians are opening the site for just this month and January . |
| 9 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |
| 10 | If my aunts ' upbringing had prepared me for anything , it was for just this sort of agitation . |
| 11 | A special overlap and border adhesive , like a thick pva , is made for just this type of situation . |
| 12 | Each main cap was tapped during manufacture for just this purpose . |
| 13 | Some models have mesh at both ends for just this purpose . |
| 14 | According to Chomsky , we are genetically pre-programmed to search for just this sort of structure underlying the sentences that we hear as infants . |
| 15 | For just this reason the only scheme of family allowances acceptable to the Labour movement as a whole was one financed out of general taxation . |
| 16 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 17 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 18 | And although Gramps had left her enough money for just this purpose she 'd been hoping to live cheaply so that she could stay in Ireland for at least a month , see as much of the country as she could . |
| 19 | … the increasingly articulate demand of society , voiced by parents , employers , politicians and the students themselves is for just this wider service — wider in aims , wider in curriculum and wider in access . |
| 20 | Information which places guilt for the patient 's illness on the family might only serve to reinforce their overprotective and critical communication styles , which may have arisen in the first place for just this reason . |
| 21 | I think we 'll move you into a little theatre we have down here for just this sort of thing , OK ? |
| 22 | It was a neat description by a commander who had been forewarned of just this certainty . |
| 23 | Granting a monopoly was the easiest way for the monarch to encourage a trade or an industry , and was also a way to reward courtiers , who did not get salaries and hoped for substantial favours of just this sort . |
| 24 | If we go into a laboratory we shall find it littered with devices of just this character , capable of affording an unambiguous answer to an experimental enquiry . |
| 25 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 26 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 27 | Yet , on the face of it , this present chapter appears to be a cross-cultural study of " marriage " institutions of just this sort . |
| 28 | It is against this background that the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has made a timely and substantial grant to the British Library of Political and Economic Science ( BLPES ) , working in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary British History , to conduct a major survey of just this area . |
| 29 | The fire had died to cold ashes , but I felt my way to where I had seen a candlestick , left ready on the mantelpiece , presumably as insurance against just this event . |
| 30 | It is not hard to see that in Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound is centrally concerned with just this question , and is defending his own scale of priorities against Hewlett 's or Newbolt 's . |