Example sentences of "just [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most immediate effect upon the lives of the people , however , came in the railways ' ability to transport perishable foodstuffs very long distances , not just within but between countries . |
| 2 | As my colleague N.K. Humphrey neatly summed up an earlier draft of this chapter ; ‘ … memes should be regarded as living structures , not just metaphorically but technically . |
| 3 | ( 1.65 m ) and you weigh 9 st 11 lb ( 62.1 kg ) , the chart says you are just right provided you have a large frame . |
| 4 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 5 | The Tory government was not particularly marvellous , he implied , just better than the others . |
| 6 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 7 | He put his hand to the switch just inside and turned the light on . |
| 8 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 9 | The first evidence that this was on its way was noticed towards the end of March , when a patch of snow just below and to the south of the Main Crater began to melt , and simultaneously , activity in the North-East Crater began to die down . |
| 10 | Jane also pointed out that Pamela has the ideal figure for trousers and when shopping for skirts , she should choose straight styles that end just below or above the knee . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Both of these two framings are acceptable : the body is cut either just below or just above the elbow joint . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Right : Framing to cut the body just below or just above the knee-joint is much better . |
| 13 | The parent trees would be retained for several years after the new trees had been planted at the new site , just so that they could be used as a reference for checking . |
| 14 | Did you know that we imported cereal from Ethiopia during the famine just so that we could have our meat ? |
| 15 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 16 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 17 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 18 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 19 | It 's always wrong to want a special friendship with someone just so that you feel better about yourself or so that others are impressed . |
| 20 | He does n't believe in Arnold Bros but he likes to think Arnold Bros exists just so that he can go on not believing in him . |
| 21 | But how 's about a drive round the island — just so that you can see for yourself what it 's like . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Just so that we do n't overtax young Jimbo 's powers of resistance . ’ |
| 23 | as if Hitler had arranged this old war for their benefit , just so that Carrie and Nick could be sent away in a train with gas masks slung over their shoulders and their names on cards round their necks . |
| 24 | Go back to what I asked Terry about , just so that you 're in the picture really . |
| 25 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 26 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 27 | Just so that we can get the erm that sentence in context . |
| 28 | Tied cottages also depressed farm wages , making farm workers unable to afford council house rents-Thus , the rents could not be lowered without raising the rates , while farmers were not going voluntarily to raise wages just so that their workers could afford to live in council houses . |
| 29 | Put a band on , just so that we do n't you know , erm squash their hair . |
| 30 | Just so that we do n't get any products on the clothes . |