Example sentences of "[prep] just such " 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 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 3 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 4 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 5 | Almost immediately , the Company Commander committed his third platoon , which had been kept in reserve for just such an eventuality . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps Madame had waited for just such a night . |
| 9 | Of course , nuclear reactors have superbly efficient back-up systems for just such eventualities . |
| 10 | On the following pages we offer a selection of rather special recipes created for just such occasions . |
| 11 | They keep a video cassette player nearby for just such an eventuality . |
| 12 | Luckily , I had a speech up my sleeve prepared for just such a glorious occasion . |
| 13 | It 's always worth keeping an odd earring , when you 've lost its partner , for just such projects . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Barlow ( 1985 ) has argued very strongly for just such a model . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In many ways the time is right — fiftieth anniversary , uncertainties in the world , French self-examination and so on — for just such a movie . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It was for just such occasions that fish and chips were invented . ’ |
| 25 | Aerial photographers scanning the country for just such signs had recorded the Hatherley evidence and told him it was virtually certain to be a Roman villa , but that archaeologists would give precedence to the more important sites . |
| 26 | The agreement and friendship between the two men was sealed when the Ukrainians insisted in the toasts being drunk in the special pepper vodka they had brought from home for just such an occasion . |
| 27 | It is for just such situations that the army plans and trains , and many years of trial and error have resulted in a hierarchy in which the number of subordinates at most levels is between 3 and 6 . |
| 28 | To invoke again the earlier distinction between different kinds of transgression , the transvestite represents a subversive reinscription within , rather than a transcendence of , an existing order , while the hermaphrodite is often appropriated as a symbol of just such a transcendence . |
| 29 | The latter had been redeployed there from Malta in July 1960 in anticipation of just such a crisis . |
| 30 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |