Example sentences of "just about [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
| 2 | It 's a fat one , and just about absolutely futile . |
| 3 | Not long ago , a piece in the New York Times Magazine pronounced him the Ali of old , just about terminally perky . |
| 4 | The holiday pendulum swung unambiguously towards entertainment rather than worthiness , the just about respectably raucous rather than the recreationally rational . |
| 5 | It tells you just about how much organic matter is present . |
| 6 | ‘ Suddenly everyone was getting on stage and doing a load of angry jokes about the Prime Minister or nuclear war and not just about how pretty table napkins were , ’ comments Merton . |
| 7 | Comedy is not about the jokes you tell , not just about how funny you even tell them , but simply about whether you 're funny or not . |
| 8 | The linkage of a pressure-cooker view of sexuality ( which sees sex as a natural force constrained by societal norms ) with a cloud-of-dust theory of ideology ( which assumes that ideas are inevitably sifted downwards through society at large ) suggests that the ‘ sexual revolution ’ is in the end just about more sexual activity . |
| 9 | If you start throwing fragments of aeroplanes into heaps , the odds of your happening to hit upon exactly the same arrangement of junk twice are just about as low as the odds of your throwing together a working airliner . |
| 10 | Yes , there are theories at to what happens at well the temperature 's in fact just about as low as you can get . |
| 11 | The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency . |
| 12 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 13 | Protection , too , thanks to the many thin cracks and cracklets seaming the rock , is plentiful and both pitches will obligingly swallow just about as much gear as you can carry . |
| 14 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 15 | Nearly everyone will agree that plants and undergravels are not really compatible ; on the other hand I think undergravels as just about as good as one can get . |
| 16 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 17 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 18 | I suppose , Professor Smith , that medicine 's been around just about as long as people have been around ? |
| 19 | In the South he was just about as deadly in the Minor County cricket as Sydney Barnes was in the North . |
| 20 | HOLLAND 'S only commercial reactor at Borssele is just about as ordinary a nuclear power plant as you could expect to find : 477 megawatts , 10 years old and saddled with a 20-year contract to supply electricity to the neighbouring Pechiney aluminium smelter at a third of the present going rate . |
| 21 | But , despite the odd disagreement , both Alison and Roland believe that in their working and family lives they have got just about as perfect a balance as they are likely to get . |
| 22 | ‘ No fool at all , ’ said Fearnley , ‘ and just about as devious as Martinez . ’ |
| 23 | The stainless alloy we use is a ‘ 430 ’ type , which is just about as magnetic a stainless as you can find . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | No insects and no fish have so far been found to use sonar , but two quite different groups of fish , one in South America and one in Africa , have developed a somewhat similar navigation system , which appears to be just about as sophisticated and which can be seen as a related , but different , solution to the same problem . |
| 26 | you know , the houses that have just got one wall and a little , or a garage which is higher than just about as high as I think |
| 27 | It reads like a government White Paper , and contains just about as few laughs , examining the decline , identifying causes , allocating blame . |
| 28 | It was just about as bad an accident as can happen to a nuclear-power station — an explosion and a fire that scattered fissile fuel all over the site and sent radioactive smoke and dust across thousands of square miles . |
| 29 | Well that 's just about as bad |
| 30 | This was just about as bad as it could possibly get . |