Example sentences of "[noun sg] but just [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
| 2 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 3 | I had planned to start on the short pole but just before the whistle sounded another boat came along . |
| 4 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 5 | Once it is accepted that principles can be part of the law for reasons not reflecting convention but just because they are morally appealing , then a door is opened for the more threatening idea that some principles are part of the law because of their moral appeal , even though they contradict what convention has endorsed . |
| 6 | Not in any special order but just as I remember them . |
| 7 | It has always seemed to me that people vote in a new government not because they actually agree with their politics but just because they want a change . |