Example sentences of "just [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE past few years the laws forbidding the sale of alcohol to teenagers have been weakened , in the sense that they are neither as just nor as realistic as they were . |
| 2 | It was just that somehow she 'd also felt disappointed … |
| 3 | The problem is not just that frequently patients in other European countries have to pay for their treatment . |
| 4 | It was just that suddenly he felt he could not look up , that he could n't , as he put it , either stand it any longer , or stand any longer . |
| 5 | It is just that so many desirable ends are incompatible . |
| 6 | It does n't have to be a nice shape it 's just that so that if the nail polish does n't |
| 7 | Just that once , Gallagher thought , stunned . |
| 8 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 9 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 10 | I was sitting , I du n no just mucking about yesterday and I just and really dead boring |
| 11 | They were rubbed with soot at the edges and to you know , just And then polished up and just to make them look er antique . |
| 12 | Yes just all your plate was just and then turnips and potatoes and dishes of that boiling hot set on the table . |
| 13 | I 'm just and then you can |
| 14 | Cos they we we were , we were doing it and and wha they were all kinds of and it 's got and I like , rushed it over to the sink and , and then just and then with the table it fell |
| 15 | These rights are called ‘ rights of occupation ’ , and where the leave of the court is necessary the court may make such orders as it thinks just and reasonable having regard to the conduct of the spouses , their needs and financial resources , the needs of the children , and all other circumstances . |
| 16 | In practice this may be a very difficult exercise to undertake because in order to decide what is intrinsically just and reasonable the court will surely have to apply some rule of construction . |
| 17 | I mean if , if she wanted you to go out there today , just if then the sensible is to pick up a taxi . |
| 18 | But just supposing yesterday 's clarion call is the answer to the serious concerns which exist about reading standards in schools . |
| 19 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 20 | I mean there 's times I could just take Billy and just but then you have to think , no . |
| 21 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 22 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 23 | Just because very few hotels have that many single rooms it does n't mean you should pay an arm and a leg for the privilege of being alone . |
| 24 | Just because like they 'd leave them for us and we had n't changed them . |
| 25 | I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it . |
| 26 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 27 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 28 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 29 | Sandoe catered for those oddities wonderfully well , just as today his successors , Rubio , Johnny , Sean , Stewart and the engaging , encyclopedic Perina ( whose name I never can remember and in consequence just call ‘ Lady ’ ) do with undiminished fervour and flair . |
| 30 | Just as today there are towns , villages , hamlets and farmsteads , so there were in the past . |