Example sentences of "on just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Southwark in December 1681 fines amounting to £9,680 were imposed on just twenty-two Nonconformist ministers . |
| 2 | ( In fact the share price rose 15p yesterday on just such hopes despite the fact that the results were much worse than expected ) . |
| 3 | It was there in order that people might have a picnic by a monument , on just such a day as this . |
| 4 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 5 | DEC reckons it can come closer to a unified Unix than any other supplier , and recently as last month freely admitted that its whole strategy is dependent on just such a gameplan ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 6 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 7 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 8 | The grief-stricken old man in blue of the St Rémy days sits head in hand on just such a shining chair by a fire with fragile flames . |
| 9 | I speak from embarrassed experience , having embarked under the nom-de-plume of Evelyn Hervey on just such a foolish enterprise , though I hope frenzied ingenuity will eventually wriggle me out of too much trouble . |
| 10 | Some became known as theropods , or beast-footed , because they walked in an upright ( or mammalian ) stance , usually on just two feet . |
| 11 | I shall focus here on just two aspects of the case : the treatment of one debtor balance of some £2.4m , and the useful life of a set of financial statements . |
| 12 | Three quarters of developing countries ' earnings come from just 33 commodities , and an individual country is likely to be dependent on just two or three of these.4 |
| 13 | Far from reflecting continuously varying values , digital information is based on just two distinct states . |
| 14 | For both a practical and a theoretical reason I shall concentrate on describing those influences in terms of just four varieties : Standard British English , London English ( henceforth LE ) , Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Creole ( henceforth JC ) , with emphasis on just two of these , LE and JC . |
| 15 | On just two separate occasions I saw a total of 34 ships go down . |
| 16 | MO Mowlam ( recreations : travelling , swimming , jogging , jigsaws , watching football ) has been explaining how she sometimes gets by during the campaign on just two hours sleep a night . |
| 17 | This produced , even despite that , two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of underspending in ninety-three four on just general expenses , on operational expenses , now I think if , if the Chief Constable says he has n't got enough money to do what he wants to do , he could start by spending all of the money he 's had this year , in recruiting all the officers he 's been allowed to recruit . |
| 18 | President Kennedy sent a telegram , Richard Nixon praised ‘ one of those who began with nothing but his own ability , and achieved greatness on just that ’ . |
| 19 | This is especially the case in rural communities , many villages depending entirely on just one pub . |
| 20 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 21 | Indeed , it must have occurred on just one of those summer evenings she mentions , for I can recall distinctly climbing to the second landing and seeing before me a series of orange shafts from the sunset breaking the gloom of the corridor where each bedroom door stood ajar . |
| 22 | I think it 's a mistake to centre yourself on just one issue . ’ |
| 23 | The most immediately obvious difference between the two recordings is that TER 's is on two CDs whereas Sony 's is accommodated on just one . |
| 24 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 25 | The benefit of this revolutionary diet is based not on just one advantage over other diets but on many factors which add up to faster , easier , more effective slimming . |
| 26 | Luckily the majority ask for information on just one or two species . |
| 27 | It received a new boost in 1990 when John Gribbin and Martin Rees published their The Stuff of the Universe , where it was asserted that the universe came into existence solely in order to create a carbon-based intelligent life-form on just one planet — Earth . |
| 28 | But there is another way in which the Anthropic Principle , or more strictly a Biothropic Principle , could be indisputably self-evident , if it means that animal and biological life on just one planet has its genesis in cosmic forces . |
| 29 | It struck Manville with no irony that Hayman had dismissed the two largest nations on the face of the earth to focus his attentions on just one man and an airplane . |
| 30 | The top seed , who has missed out on just one final in 30 tournaments over the last two years , looked set for a shock defeat at 3–6 , 0–3 down midway through the second set . |