Example sentences of "[was/were] in just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 1981 Census three quarters of all female workers were in just four of the sixteen occupational orders , where they outnumbered men : personal services ( e.g. cleaners , hairdressers ) ; clerical ; professional workers in education , health and welfare ( i.e. school teachers and nurses ) and selling ( mainly shop assistants ) . |
| 2 | As I have said already , it was in just such a position that the doctor who attended us in wartime lived . |
| 3 | I was in just such a trance , going through the motions of doing what I was told , but without being able to do so in reality . |
| 4 | It was in just this situation that the FAA originally decided to take an authoritative attitude and make it compulsory for flight crews to report dangerous incidents . |
| 5 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |