Example sentences of "[noun sg] be just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 2 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 3 | If any one of those companies loses two per cent of market share their profitability is just about completely destroyed . |
| 4 | My sister-in-law is just about the same age as me , and whether it 's because she 's not his daughter , but he treats her completely different . |
| 5 | ‘ The ride is firm , but there 's no body roll and the engine is just about the sweetest I 've ever had . ’ |
| 6 | In theory the dazzle explanation makes sense , because the zebra patterning is just about as vivid as it can be , when seen at close quarters , but once again the facts do not support this idea in practice . |
| 7 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 8 | Despite that , the Dairy Crest sell-off is just about the only part of the MMB proposals to have been met with enthusiasm by the rest of the industry . |
| 9 | Then your picture 's just about made . ’ |
| 10 | The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one . |
| 11 | It 's a comfortable car to drive , assisted by power steering , and while leg-room in the back is just about adequate the low roof can prove irritating for tall rear seat passengers . |
| 12 | In the end I suppose a tie is just about right . |
| 13 | Your suggestion last night was just about the most obscene thing I have ever heard . |
| 14 | Our cycle ride 's just about long enough . |
| 15 | The morning 's just about full |
| 16 | For any event involving more than two hundred people , a year 's planning is just about enough ; for any event involving fewer people six months is the absolute minimum . |
| 17 | Dean Acheson had caused a storm in the British media with his suggestion that Britain 's world role was just about played out . |
| 18 | Except in the various branches of victualling the effective upper limit was just about £40 — indeed , only a tiny minority of assessments exceeded £20 . |
| 19 | As an operation , infibulation is just about as unpleasant in its consequences as it sounds . |
| 20 | If in the end science is just about the harmonious reconciliation of the behaviour of laboratory apparatus , it is hard to see why it is worth the expenditure of effort involved . |
| 21 | Well my , my , my line 's just about full of jumpers . |
| 22 | The engineer said , ‘ So they 've enough powder , very likely , to baulk that final attack we were all counting on , but on the other hand the food is just about finished . |
| 23 | ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia . |
| 24 | Here the answer is just about any error the superior courts wish . |
| 25 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 26 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 27 | The other was a man called Clint Brawner who in his own field of American racing was just about as big a winner as Ferrari or Chapman in FI : over fifty wins in eighteen years . |
| 28 | The money 's just about run out . |
| 29 | ‘ His expression is just about as dreary as the weather . ’ |
| 30 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |