Example sentences of "just [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some of them would take it maybe themselves just or in Kirkwall . |
| 2 | But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located . |
| 3 | He did just that during Feb , March 1992 to hand us the title . |
| 4 | It was just that at Summerhill the ‘ kids ’ knew what to do with it . |
| 5 | It 's just that at the time it all seemed so beautiful and important , it was like some kind of historical event . |
| 6 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 7 | NOT MANY preserved steam railways can boast two unique happenings in two days , but the West Somerset Railway did just that at its sixth annual Vintage Vehicle Rally and Steam Fayre over the weekend of August 1–2 . |
| 8 | No , I did n't mean that , it 's just that on the telly you look so … so … ’ |
| 9 | She had said just that to Miss Fairgrieves on her first day as governess . |
| 10 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 11 | It was just that after a weekend of weeping over Cameron , and two absolutely hectic days at the office with Helena now also down with chicken-pox , she felt like a bit of glamour . |
| 12 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 13 | It 's just that until now , their efforts have been pretty much restricted to the dreary business of pointing out female ‘ sexism ’ . |
| 14 | Perhaps that 's what W O meant : it 's not that there are no faults , just that from behind the wheel of a Bentley you do n't give a damn . |
| 15 | ‘ Social services would n't dream of institutionalising a child at six , yet in this country parents do just that by sending many boys of that age to prep school . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Stark reckons that an emerging generation of academics , disillusioned by the arcane teachings of their forebears , is starting to do just that by tackling many of the dilemmas managers face each day — those which business ethicists have previously side-stepped . |
| 17 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 18 | And she set out to do just that by making the little budgie one of Britain 's most popular pets . |
| 19 | The argument is certainly persuasive for efficient farming areas , and , according to farm unions in Germany , some farmers there have decided to do just that by not completing the IACS forms and not seeking the subsidies or the controls which are the price of the subsidies . |
| 20 | Bradstone , leading producers of high quality paving and walling products , is pleased to offer out prizewinner the opportunity to do just that in this exciting competition to win a patio worth £3,000 . |
| 21 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 22 | It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life . |
| 23 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just that in life we believe in doing what you want to do . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 26 | They found most of the equipment to do just that in my flat when they searched it : an answer-machine , my PC and its modem ; another lead or two and it would have been easy to set it up if you knew what you were doing , or just used trial and error and were patient . |
| 27 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 28 | It 's just that in these times … ’ |
| 29 | It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little . |
| 30 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |