Example sentences of "[been] [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous ball had been stopped just short of the boundary by some members of the crowd who had engulfed the pitch . |
| 2 | Had it been realised just how large the audience had become and how fast it was growing , greater attention might have been paid to broadcasting during 1961 to 1968 . |
| 3 | It was announced on state radio on Jan. 4 that Goma-Foutou , in his capacity as Territorial Administration Minister , had banned state radio journalists from broadcasting news about opposition parties ; these had been legalized just over a week earlier . |
| 4 | Some employees have been sacked just for being HIV positive . |
| 5 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 6 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 7 | For those too old , lazy or hungover to face the 15-minute slog up this hill , a crag has been developed just outside the village right beside the D546 road to Sederon . |
| 8 | Yet these men and women are well off compared to their counterparts in Ghana where subject teams had been given just nine months to produce new curriculum plans and to launch a new series of materials to fit a ‘ new content and structure of education ’ announced by the cabinet . |
| 9 | The Harris family had been given just two weeks to find eight thousand pounds in mortgage arrears . |
| 10 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 11 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 12 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 13 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 14 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 15 | Our job has always been to stand just between heaven and earth — to be neither pain nor joy , man nor woman , but to stand beyond the dualities which rule this world . |
| 16 | It has been deemed just , in consideration of the share borne by the Servians in this war , to come to a solemn agreement respecting their security . |
| 17 | The other diners who mostly had n't been listening just clapped . |
| 18 | They had been built just before the war and were only now being used for their intended purpose . |
| 19 | Because of the way in which my visit to the judges and the prison was arranged , I am quite confident that no ‘ set-piece ’ situations or activities had been organized just for my benefit or to create a more favourable impression of the judicial system or the detention centre . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’ |
| 21 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 22 | But one prospective licensee contracted by Community Care claimed he had been offered just two days in which to train and meet possible purchasers of his service . |
| 23 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 24 | Otherwise elegant and beautiful theories have been rejected because they do n't agree with observation , but I do n't know of any major theory that has been advanced just on the basis of experiment . |
| 25 | It had been renovated just before the war and was now regarded as quite modem for the area . |
| 26 | Sir Hugo had been riding just behind the hounds . |
| 27 | The launch of the Space Shuttle , Columbia , has been aborted just three seconds before lift-off . |
| 28 | He had been born just over two months after the marriage , and they named him Charles Benjamin after his paternal grandfather and father respectively . |
| 29 | Henry Ford 's family had been born just outside Cork city and had emigrated to America , he himself had become a multi-millionaire and now , as a national benefactor , was perpetuating his name in his ancestral home town . |
| 30 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |