Example sentences of "just [adv] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just as necessary to be aware of the role which desire , displacement and fantasy play in our own practices , as it is in relation to the perverse ideo-logic of racism itself . |
| 2 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 3 | To make matters worse , there is no evidence that lack of spending by social services is compensated for by increased NHS spending , or vice versa ; indeed , the financial allocation seems just as likely to be low from both authorities , as it has been , for example , in the London Borough of Lambeth , or very good in both authorities , as traditionally has been the case in Newcastle . |
| 4 | But they are just as likely to be white , middle-class , and middle-aged . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 7 | You thought it was just too ridiculous to be true ? |
| 8 | Apparently , watch batteries are just too small to be practical on our shelves . |
| 9 | For , despite the increasingly desperate efforts of Sounds to separate the skins from the swastikas , for many observers the timing of the skinhead revival and the resurgence of right wing politics in the inner city ghettos was just too close to be coincidental . |
| 10 | This seemed just too good to be true . |
| 11 | The ex-Python turned world explorer seems just too good to be true . |
| 12 | As far as the tabloid music press were concerned , Nirvana were just too good to be true . |
| 13 | I mean I kind of you know , you give a start and unfortunately if you 're in bed with somebody else you tend to wake them up , because my wife never does that , she 's just too good to be true . |
| 14 | ‘ It was just too bad to be true , ’ he added . |
| 15 | In their eyes she was just too glamorous to be serious about her job and Kate realised she was going to have her work cut out tomorrow morning if she was to get and retain their respect on equal terms . |
| 16 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |