Example sentences of "just [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical difference between the two theories of adjudication is therefore this : in a conventionalist regime judges would not think themselves free to change rules adopted pursuant to the reigning legal conventions just because on balance a different rule would be more just or efficient . |
| 2 | So they would immediately have turned to the second , legislative stage : they would have tried to discover which decision was more sensible or just or democratic or would otherwise better serve the community . |
| 3 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 4 | In 1982 , I would stand just where that cameraman stood in 1958 and watch an Israeli jet on the same bombing run , attacking the same block of buildings in west Beirut . |
| 5 | They know just where other pools lie and are able to judge their leaps with such accuracy that they always drop into one . |
| 6 | Sister Dannii would often join in and little could parents Carol and Ron have realised just where this extrovert show of singing and dancing would lead to . |
| 7 | That the House of Commons , which had its share of agnostics and non-Anglicans , should order the Church how to worship God was an interference by the State in the affairs of the Church , just where those affairs were sacred and touched the conscience . |
| 8 | However , the situation immediately becomes more complicated when an attempt is made to determine precisely what language a child is capable of producing , how much a child understands , and , if the child appears to be experiencing difficulties , just where these difficulties lie . |
| 9 | If a yogi could tell us at any given moment what his digestive organs were doing , in chemical terms , and some constant monitoring apparatus attached to his intestines confirmed everything he said , then we might want to say yes ; for the performance would seem to show just that immediate awareness of goings-on that we think of as intuitively necessary for a Conscious process . |
| 10 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 11 | Just that one brief moment of madness … |
| 12 | Another lever , which also worked for just that one hour , controlled the food supply . |
| 13 | ‘ When I look at Anna , I am reminded that , in just that one orphanage , there are still all those beautiful children with so much wasted potential . ’ |
| 14 | And for a moment despair was overwhelmed by something more lively : by a sensation of such disgust that for just that one moment I was almost galvanized into rebellion . |
| 15 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 16 | It was just that one word , but it was enough . |
| 17 | It is not just that many of the old structures of central planning have been demolished , or that much of the government is now in the hands of people who still refer to themselves quite unselfconsciously as ‘ the opposition ’ . |
| 18 | it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that . |
| 19 | It 's just that that just how I I had to be . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’ |
| 21 | I d I do n't mean that 's er er a terribly difficult thing but it is just that that does have to happen . |
| 22 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all . |
| 23 | Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available , |
| 24 | It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced . |
| 25 | You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know . |
| 26 | Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams . |
| 28 | It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’ |
| 29 | It 's just that most of us are not honest enough to admit to the fact . |
| 30 | It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over . |