Example sentences of "just [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote to Hester just afore Christmas , explaining about Ma being badly . |
| 2 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 3 | Its principal strengths lie in the ability to ( a ) make selective use of available visual cues ( for fluent readers much of the visual stimulus remains unattended [ Just & Carpenter , 1987 ] ) and ( b ) utilise an understanding of the text that can guide the reading process and compensate for any degradation or ambiguity within the visual stimulus . |
| 4 | Nicolo was there , standing just where Bob Calder had indicated , the only person who had not in any way acknowledged her presence . |
| 5 | No one can really say just where Palma Nova stops and Magalluf begins , they just sort of merge into one another and the sandy beach runs the length of both resorts . |
| 6 | But much of the activity is now broadly economic and social ; just where town planning , in the sense established during the post-war years , now actually begins and ends is questionable . |
| 7 | Please , can you find out from someone just where Mr. Andrew is ? " |
| 8 | It is , in fact , an approach to managing health services and the range of views is largely reflecting just where individuals are within an organisation , the key tasks that concern them and their own approach to implementation . |
| 9 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 10 | It 's just that Peake 's trilogy Titus Groan , Gormenghast and Titus Alone has attracted such a cult following that Glass was apprehensive about doing justice to the novels in the eye of fans . |
| 11 | Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is . |
| 12 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 13 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 14 | ‘ Just that Sergeant Shaw checked with Records . |
| 15 | It 's a big problem , it 's just that fluctuations you do , if you are aware you 've got some . |
| 16 | It 's just that New York fashion people look down their noses at you unless you 're a graduate of a fancy school of design . ’ |
| 17 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 18 | ‘ Just that Fraulein Winkelmann was keeping some papers for him . ’ |
| 19 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 20 | It 's just that Victor Hugo can be so terribly amusing sometimes . ’ |
| 21 | Or maybe it 's just that Scotland is too familiar with lads from the back streets of Edinburgh claiming they have a license to kill . |
| 22 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 23 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 24 | It was not that her therapist was possessed of unusual wisdom or insight and that Scarlet had learned from her : it was just that Scarlet had discerned her way of thought and her approach to the problems which beset the insecure and so found her entirely predictable . |
| 25 | It 's just that Strach was fitter last season than we could have hoped , and we needed his blood and guts leadership to dig us out of the mess we were in . |
| 26 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
| 27 | It 's alright Kerry it 's just that Graham has come to do , to observe my teaching and he 'll be wanting to sit there , is that alright ? |
| 28 | It was n't just that Nottingham 's studious fullback landed seven goals from his solitary World Cup appearance , against the American Eagles at Twickenham last October . |
| 29 | It 's just that Alice looked so gorgeous , I really would n't have blamed him . ’ |
| 30 | It 's just that Daley Thompson and Seb Coe will keep intruding on my dreams . |