Example sentences of "just [conj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 Rather , Qaddafi argued that rational association of people was less valuable , less stable , intrinsically less just than association on natural bases ; and by ‘ natural ’ he meant ties of descent and kinship .
5 Well I ai n't gon na sit here listening to you rabbit on just cos mum wanted that filling up !
6 Just cos mum .
7 Sort of going just cos daddy 'll sort you out then !
8 I was going absolutely eppy This is in the middle of class , I was going eppy And she goes and I goes , oh yes just cos daddy 's got a very nice car and you live in Inkborough like this !
9 Boys proved him just and understanding .
10 It 's just if Rod wanted to write notes this is the last blank one I 've got .
11 Well , just because play is static does not mean that there is no continuity .
12 The world is changing , and just because defence , nuclear energy and agricultural research have been done in certain ways in the past does not mean that that is the best way now .
13 It 's really just because backing fieldwork might be slightly different from checking normal supplies which will be quality and quantity .
14 That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works .
15 Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach .
16 Of course it 's going to be evaded , and it will be quite hard work to get it enforced , but you ca n't avoid the things women have to fight for at work , you ca n't pull women out of work , out of the unions , just because housework is n't recognised by a direct wage .
17 Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment .
18 Alright , now not all products are going to be , you know , you ca n't switch with the same amount of ease across all products , there are only , you know , if you are erm , a wheat farmer in the south east of England , alright , you 're not likely to switch into milk production just bec just because milk prices have risen .
19 We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed .
20 We also believe that encouraging minerals operators who want to extend their quarries to show how this ‘ would achieve an enhancement to the local landscape ’ , will make it much harder for planning authorities to refuse extensions where there are clearly no exceptional circumstances involved , just because landscape improvements are proposed .
21 In fact , Stevens ( 1991 ) argues that it is just because devaluation does not work as an instrument of economic policy that the argument for a single currency is made more powerful .
22 His main theme was the increasing power of Rome in the Mediterranean and this , as Momigliano points out , Provided him with a new historical perspective : ‘ Just because Fortune made almost all the affairs of the world incline in one direction , it is the historian 's task to put before his readers a compendious view of the ways in which Fortune accomplished her purposes . ’
23 Shall we give up , just because life is against us ?
24 I 'm not making it just because observation comes before communication , although it does : since before an observable truth can be communicated , someone somewhere must get that true belief — or something from which it can be inferred — by observation .
25 Just because investment was not significantly lower on occasions when interest rates were high , it does not follow that investment is unresponsive to interest rate changes .
26 Just because Club 18–30 gives you more it does n't mean you should pay more !
27 But just because Club 18–30 is a great place for meeting people and making new friends of either sex , it does n't mean to say that those people who already have someone special in their lives ca n't come and join in the fun as well .
28 Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense .
29 Thus just because beer is produced in a different way in one country as compared with another does not mean that either country can legitimately prevent imports from the other .
30 Ironically , just because death was such a central concern in the past , the history of death is much more fully studied than the history of living old people .
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