Example sentences of "[prep] just the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’
2 CELTIC 'S victory at Dens Park last night was worth just the usual two points .
3 Simply expressed , and taking these two points together , pluralists are charged with asking the wrong question ( who participates instead of who benefits ) about just the public aspect of policy-making so that they ignore the " private " aspect of power and policy-making altogether .
4 Still it 's hard to believe the young warlord wo n't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace .
5 We do n't have beef very often , but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you , by the time you 've cooked it
6 In an attempt to widen share ownership , Matthew Cole , Blues fan and co-editor of the fanzine Tired and Weary , last year offered to surrender 49 of his 50 shares in the club , for just the small cost of the re-registration , to 49 other fans .
7 The two sets of genes can be expected to ‘ pull together ’ for just the same reasons as all the genes of one individual organism normally pull together .
8 For just the same reason , it is vanishingly improbable that exactly the same evolutionary pathway should ever be travelled twice .
9 Twenty-six plates of ‘ Mousse Arbroath Smokies ’ were already laid out , they 'd said — with just the single carrot juice for just the single Vegan girl .
10 NOW , A PHOTO OF JUST THE TWO OF YOU , MR WYATT
11 Instead of just the two states 1 and 0 , the information technology of living cells uses four states , which we may conventionally represent as A , T , C and G. There is very little difference , in principle , between a two-state binary information technology like ours , and a four-state information technology like that of the living cell .
12 ‘ Now this is packed in three-kilo boxes , filled properly with ice of just the right size .
13 Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones .
14 The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size .
15 Using a fluorescent marker to highlight the left side of any reading material , such as a newspaper , can help the patient to pay attention to the whole text instead of just the right half .
16 The existence of a second decaying solution , which would occur on its own only if one had an initially large disturbance of just the right configuration , is irrelevant . )
17 That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola .
18 The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred .
19 UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead .
20 But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed .
21 Before anyone had a drink , Ken called out his apologies and the guests left , leaving behind just the immediate family and Lou 's sister , Alice , and her husband , who ran a pub in Hornsey .
22 The April Saturday was mild , with just the faintest threat of showers .
23 This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly .
24 Finally , in the third kind of Friedmann model , with just the critical rate of expansion , space is flat ( and therefore is also infinite ) .
25 The output from the feedforward control is intended to provide the motor with just the extra push which will bring it to the required setting .
26 WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander .
27 And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness .
28 Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow , inexorable growth .
29 Alexeev commands a wide tonal palette and his lighter , filigree strokes , ( e.g. in the G major and E flat major préludes ) k , but all in all this is a most satisfying interpretation , with just the right balance between control/taste and fascinating notes from the late Gerald Abraham .
30 I was relaxed , confident , with just the right amount of adrenalin pumping through my veins .
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