Example sentences of "[be] [adv] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think I 'll be dead just then ! |
| 2 | The total value of his DOUBLE PAYOUT , in this case , would be only just short of £83,000 ! |
| 3 | But even then the war would be only just beginning . |
| 4 | He spoke for most aid workers when he said that when the UN takes over control on May 4th its work will be only just beginning . |
| 5 | Her battered , motley-panelled 2CV had looked out of place in Ascot Square , where I think that anything less than a two-year old Golf GTi , Peugeot 209 or Renault 5 was considered to be only just above banger status , even as a third car , let alone a second . |
| 6 | Sao Paolo in Brazil will be only just behind with 23.6 millions . |
| 7 | Whereas in March 1989 a public-sector debt repayment ( PSDR ) of nearly £14,000 million in 1989-90 had been forecast [ see p. 36529 ] , this was now expected to be only just over £7,000 million , and a broadly similar PSDR of £6,900 million was currently projected for 1990-91 . |
| 8 | Apart from anything else , he looked to be only just in his twenties . |
| 9 | Hello sha n't be long just in time for a cuppa . |
| 10 | If we pretend there can be law when it is not clear what the law is , we will lose sight of the intimate connection between law and fair warning , and our politics will be less just in the future . |
| 11 | Quite where Ireland will go from here is impossible to predict ; it will be enough just to avoid the maulings at Wales — as Triple Crown winners — suffered in New Zealand on their ill-fated two-test tour in 1988 . |
| 12 | We 're not the kind of thing that attracts government funding cos we 're not sort of we do n't go along with the architectural you know , the architectural establishment really insists that everything should be exactly just so . |
| 13 | Since the American slump that created a space for Henry VIII and some of Korda 's succeeding films quickly passed , subsequent pictures had to be not just good , but exceptional , if they were to break through the resistance or American audiences to foreign films . |
| 14 | The music of the ever-receding margins , the music over which we have a claim , should be not just anti-soul ( against intimations of health , the centrality of the body , straighttalking , wholesomeness ) but anti-irony ( the raised eyebrow , the quotation marks ) . |
| 15 | Early Whitesnake was good , because I was pushing the limits of a fairly simple kind of music — probably being a bit over-busy through trying to be not just a standard rock bass player . |
| 16 | If you relate this to your own life , 1993 will be not just purposeful but rewarding . |
| 17 | The alternative will be not just that the situation is a mess but that perfectly respectable stores will continue to be forced to break a stupid and outdated law . |
| 18 | He , Ben Lowe , would start the newspaper of the new dawn , the paper that would restore faith in the discredited medium , the paper that would be not just a paper , but far more . |
| 19 | It is likely to be not just shoes or slippers which are chewed : the legs of a table or chair , a bed or other furniture are equally vulnerable . |
| 20 | In this multi-channelled world , Mr Myhrvold argues , the challenge will be not just to supply information but to make it easy for the user to pick out the specific bits he wants . |
| 21 | To cap it all , the administration has been shown to be not just partisan , not just radical in some of its instincts , but alarmingly accident-prone . |
| 22 | With such facts in mind , the preference utilitarian may suggest that our aim should be not just that people should somehow have as much subjective experience as possible of the kinds they most prefer , but that as much as possible of what they would like to have happen should happen . |
| 23 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 24 | A glance at the latest list published in Fortune magazine shows it to be not just silly but ludicrous : the list purports to show only US industrial companies — but it classifies AT&T Co as a service company and eliminates it altogether despite the fact that with NCR Corp added in , AT&T 's non-service businesses alone would give the firm a ranking in the 50s . |
| 25 | A third , unstated constant was that each of the four women would look at the camera , and that each should be not just physically but psychologically present … |
| 26 | It was certainly clear , as the 1970s drew to a close , that the nationalities question was by no means destined for the historical obsolescence to which official spokesmen wished to consign it , and even Brezhnev , recommending the adoption of the 1977 Constitution , warned that it would be not just unLeninist but actually ‘ dangerous ’ if the steady convergence of the Soviet nations were artificially accelerated . |
| 27 | If the options proposed by the report gain acceptance , then the beneficiaries will be not just the estates and rural communities of the Highlands , but the red deer themselves and the hills and forests they inhabit . |
| 28 | The problem can be briefly stated as follows ; it was thought that for certiorari to be available there would have to be not just a determination affecting the rights of individuals , but also a superadded duty to act judicially . |
| 29 | This was to be not just a travel book but one which should be of use if , as seemed increasingly likely , we should be involved in hostilities with Italy : a circumstance which I nevertheless felt could , with diplomatic skill , be avoided . |
| 30 | but when held up in the light of the Word , it is shown to be not just merely a stone , but a jewel of great beauty . |