Example sentences of "[noun] have just about " in BNC.

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1 Westminster environmental protection officer Sid Geake says the council has just about cracked the problem of multiple signs , but is now going even further to curb the blight .
2 My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead .
3 Well , Debbie has just about given in .
4 People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone .
5 What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er
6 Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number .
7 Tony rang Kate 's parents to tell them to come round ( they were going to look after 2½-year-old William ) and , by the time they arrived , Kate had just about finished her bath .
8 The rest of the tour have just about managed to laugh about it by now , but not Jasper .
9 Cognos has just about sorted out one of the big problems software companies with a proprietary platform background face when getting into Unix : pricing .
10 " Yes , the tide had just about turned when I got there .
11 Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m .
12 Fabia had just about succeeded when her telephone rang .
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