Example sentences of "[det] [noun] just [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He could not shed that responsibility just because he had sold the place .
2 What that exercise predicts is that there should be particles mediating the influence of that field just as the photon mediates the electromagnetic field .
3 If in a subsequent Act Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed , effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the Legislature .
4 But we are talking the world 's favourite guitar tones , and they are present on this guitar just where you expect to find them .
5 You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts .
6 We might hold that our beliefs about our sensory states are always justified to some degree just because of their subject matter ( non-inferentially , therefore ) , whereas most other beliefs are justified inferentially if at all ; one could suppose this in an attempt to make sense of the empiricist idea that our beliefs about our present experience have a stability which other beliefs lack , in virtue of which they are able to justify those other beliefs and thus meet the empiricist demand ( vaguely expressed here ) that all our knowledge be grounded in our experience .
7 Do n't let's run away from this question just because large numbers are involved .
8 We feel sure we understand this distinction just as we feel sure we understand the distinction between truth and falsehood , or the distinction between good and evil .
9 He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind .
10 Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach .
11 Hypnosis , acupuncture and other " alternative " therapies may be helpful in covering the detoxification period in some people just as they can be helpful in detoxification in other forms of addiction .
12 Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it .
13 Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that 's the way it is .
14 The Secretary of State for Education and Science sits on the Treasury Bench , treating us over this Bill just as he did when he was Secretary of State for Health .
15 I followed him , gratefully , and we wandered down some backstairs and out on to another floor just as Ray Gelato and his Giants of Jive were starting up .
16 ‘ One of my regrets is leaving this project just as it has started to get off the ground , ’ said Det Insp Williams , who started out as a PC in the Cheshire Constabulary in 1963 .
17 " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . "
18 ‘ It 's going to be a real test of character to ensure we stay up because relegation is unthinkable for a club of this status just when the league is expanding . ’
19 In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there .
20 I get a few qualms just before the green light comes on .
21 The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years .
22 This is all in the working week for Tim Renwick , who spared me some time just before he started work on ‘ Tom Jones — The Right Time ’ …
23 Erm so erm you may find that you can address that issue just as well with one erm and that 's s well from what you were saying yesterday , that seems to be the y'know the kind of sort of approach to design that you 're taking .
24 It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident .
25 Then we can sail off on a reach in either direction just as we saw Suzanne doing .
26 There are hundreds of arcades in London , and people become addicted to these machines just as they become addicted to drugs .
27 Why do train travellers and see-ers off always say the most meaningful things to each other just when the train is actually moving off , gathering speed and making them further and further apart ?
28 We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ?
29 We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific .
30 Mrs Abigail , she 'd told Lavinia , had called her a fool that morning just because she dropped a tin plate when they were doing Meals on Wheels .
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