Example sentences of "just [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | Only 40% of the world 's potential arable land was in use in 1975 , and that will have increased to just 50% in 2000 . |
2 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
3 | The pain is the price of freedom : not just freedom in a spiritual kingdom after death , but realised in an inner freedom to love . |
4 | Centre Re started with capital of just $150m in 1988 . |
5 | British Telecommunications Plc says that the bid by AT&T Co to operate in the UK could speed liberalisation of the key North Atlantic telecommunications route , and reckons that the matter could be settled within months ; AT&T says that it would much preferred to have entered the UK market with a local partner but saw no prospect of that ( it had been negotiating with Cable & Wireless Plc for a stake in Mercury Communications Ltd ; meanwhile each side throws regulatory brickbats at the other , with AT&T complaining that it has to deal — on a confidential basis — with British Telecom on interconnect and access charges where in the US , charges are much lower and have to be applied within the operator 's own business as well — and that simply applying for a licence in the UK costs $70,000 against just $610 in the US ; British Telecom complains that it was n't allowed to increase its 20% stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc and achieve a management position — and likely would be barred from buying MCI Communications Inc , where AT&T would be free to buy Vodafone Group Plc — or even Mercury , outright , if it wanted to . |
6 | Islam governs everything you do ; the clothes that you wear are just bricks in the wall of something much greater . |
7 | Try Profile ; just type in ‘ Get Azul ’ and — ’ |
8 | backslash directory I think you can just type in file . |
9 | Just type in a minute and I 'll |
10 | Just £10 in sponsorship money will protect ten people from river blindness for a year . |
11 | The survey found we pay £42 for a basket of 22 everyday items compared to just £20.40 in Mexico . |
12 | Today they 're just ruins in a Paris suburb , it 's hard to imagine what these roman baths looked like when they were new . |
13 | The 32% stake cost just $77,500 in 1981 . |
14 | Or was it just noises in the skull ? |
15 | Patriarchy has shown women that there is no such thing as peace , there are just gaps in the wars . |
16 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
17 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
18 | Miss Lamb is outraged that liquidators have paid just 4.75p in the pound to investors hit by the 1982 collapse of the Isle of Man Savings and Investments Bank . |
19 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
20 | They were just pieces in Matyre 's game . |
21 | Students ' union secretary Stuart Kahn called on the Government to ensure the new universities were properly-funded ‘ and not just universities in name ’ . |
22 | It is not just workers in industry whose health and lives are put at risk by criminal acts . |
23 | The three cards which came with the review machine weigh just 1oz in total . |
24 | I 'm just putty in the hands of someone like Deana , she decided , angry at herself . |
25 | The European Commission has set up definitive measures to stop imports of computer chips from South Korea being dumped within the Community : finance ministers decided on Monday that imports of dynamic RAMs from Korea would either be subject to import duties of 24.7% or to a pricing deal worked out with the three main chip producers , Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd and Goldstar Electron Co Ltd ; anti-dumping duties had been levied at 10.1% ; the Big Three took 25% of the Community in 1990 from just 6% in 1986 . |
26 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
27 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
28 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
29 | Skeletal arms lifted , one pointing ; eyes that were just holes in maggoty wood seemed to seek compassion from the human . |
30 | Geoff Thomas has been Palace 's inspirational , attacking midfield supremo , and occasional centre defender , since he joined us from Crewe Alexandra for just £50,000 in June 1987 , and he became our club captain in succession to Jim Cannon twelve months later |