Example sentences of "by just [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 2 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 3 | It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 . |
| 4 | It has been a rhetorical device , then — necessary because ( my literary friends tell me ) science proceeds by just such rhetoric — but rhetorical nonetheless . |
| 5 | The thought , accompanied by just such an image , jumped into Lisa 's head before she could stop it . |
| 6 | The idea of ‘ sister ’ is not linked by an inner relationship to the succession of sounds s-o-r which serves as its signifier in French ; that it could be represented equally well by just any other sequence is proved by the differences among languages and by the very existence of different languages . |
| 7 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 8 | Numbers living in rural areas more or less stood still until mid-century , falling by just half a million between 1831 and 1911 . |
| 9 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 10 | These strategic positions are not filled by just another group of salaried employees . |