Example sentences of "with just the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 2 | Fortunately the shelling had ceased with just the occasional mortar burst close at hand when the Duty Officer made his rounds at ‘ stand-to' ’ . |
| 3 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 4 | The April Saturday was mild , with just the faintest threat of showers . |
| 5 | Open beach marks at Dyffryn and Talybont have seen little angling activity with just the odd dab and rockling . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it provided Harold Watkinson with just the precedent that he needed to swing the pendulum back into the centre of the spectrum of war . |
| 7 | That leaves the Scots with just the All Blacks to beat , this summer . |
| 8 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |
| 9 | The conversation goes well , and we progress confidently along a tightrope of loose connections , with just the occasional wobble . |
| 10 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 11 | Later I turned and walloped back towards Berlin , by way of Magdeburg , with just the one tweak of the Tardis en route as I saw the signs for Potsdam . |
| 12 | Shareholders are left with just the 1p interim dividend . |
| 13 | Inside the box , with just the top of the barrel showing , was a single-barrelled shotgun . |
| 14 | COMPARED to Wednesday 's winter blizzards , which had reduced the first day to 27 instead of 36 holes , the conditions for the Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath yesterday were wonderful — icy winds and leaden skies with just the occasional hint of a watery sun . |
| 15 | ‘ I couldna' , ’ Sadie looked away with just the barest hint of a micro-second 's hesitation . |
| 16 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 17 | ‘ Sh-sh ! ’ she whispered , with just the hint of the Rachel giggle in it . |
| 18 | Dr Nolan said it was just shock and she would get over it in time , but it was hard to live with just the same . |
| 19 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 20 | Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow , inexorable growth . |
| 21 | Alexeev commands a wide tonal palette and his lighter , filigree strokes , ( e.g. in the G major and E flat major préludes ) k , but all in all this is a most satisfying interpretation , with just the right balance between control/taste and fascinating notes from the late Gerald Abraham . |
| 22 | Built by Tim Bryan , it can be raced as shown , fitted with an outrigger for stability and twin sails or assembled with just the end two of its three sections to give a 7.3m canoe . |
| 23 | I was relaxed , confident , with just the right amount of adrenalin pumping through my veins . |
| 24 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 25 | We drifted down past Magdalen Fellows ' Garden , borne along on the current with just the odd stroke to correct our course . |
| 26 | The boy 's black eyes flicked up at his face impassively , with just the slightest suggestion of contempt . |
| 27 | Successful fish photographs can be taken any place any time with just the single adjustable head flash mounted on the camera . |
| 28 | My reaction to it now is to take all the delays off and play with just the straight guitar — do something different ! ’ |
| 29 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 30 | The three knurled rotaries feel good , with just the right amount of damping . |