Example sentences of "[prep] just that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting to decide next year 's budget is formally about just that — fixing the budget . |
| 2 | Many people are asking worried questions about just that point . |
| 3 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 4 | for just that reason Seljalandsfoss is best viewed from the side , unlike most other waterfalls . |
| 5 | The Rovertrail has been invented for just that situation ( and many others , of course . ) |
| 6 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 7 | It is rare , if not unknown , for the same voices to be heard if a sentence is too severe , although the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal frequently reduces sentences for just that reason . |
| 8 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 9 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 10 | But then he knew he would n't , because he would be doing it for just that reason even if he really preferred tea with lemon . |
| 11 | She knew , of course , had known from the cradle , that the Church as a worldly institution attempted too much and was , for just that reason , the more spectacular in its shortcomings ; was , in fact , absurd . |
| 12 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 13 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 14 | But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product . |
| 15 | He was goading her , waiting for just that reaction . |
| 16 | Well I would n't like to see an exam system which was entirely multiple choice questions for just that reason . |
| 17 | On the X-axis are arranged the episode types in which that action plays a part ; on the Y- and Z-axes the meaning-preserving and meaning-altering alternatives which are excluded by the performing of just that action . |
| 18 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 19 | Selina has a bra-and-pants set of just that colour . |
| 20 | erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place . |
| 21 | Surely a place as organized as Spiderglass Europa would have resistances built in to protect against just that ? |
| 22 | Dan must have built it with just that fantasy in focus , to keep some bust-out bimbo with a big ass and chichis in a style befitting Little Freakin' Egypt . |
| 23 | Allowing the Irish peasants to buy land — did the government think they would be satisfied with just that ? |
| 24 | Indeed , Kenny only missed one match in three seasons 1976–79 ( when he missed a train to Bristol Rovers ! ) , and altogether had a run of 156 league games with just that one omission . |
| 25 | It 's still an essentially traditional Strat sound , but with just that extra bit of in-your-face mid-range bite to drive the amp harder . |
| 26 | You will , by now , have had the experience of making at least two sleeves , so the pair for the handle ends of the lines can be made up' in the field' quite easily with just that wire needle and a box of matches to hand . |
| 27 | With just that handful of pictures for comfort . |
| 28 | It was never a question of somebody saying ‘ we have a depression , let's give them depression movies ’ but given the new dispensation it was Hollywood 's instinct to come up with just that added edge that the age required in its films . |
| 29 | Only an actor 's hair could fall across his brow with just that air of studied abandon , only an actor could ask her if she had a room available in just those tones of highwayman , doomed poet and pathetic little boy all rolled into one . |
| 30 | Not your skin , with just that texture and light |