Example sentences of "just to " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is felt to testify , not just to a general rankness and decay , but to a conflagration of another kind — to what will happen if the political and racial tensions of the island can no longer be contained . |
| 2 | Face crushed face , but even the humiliated ones , the ones pushed away , the third-raters and the defeated ones , even those — from a certain distance imposed by the law of hierarchy , it 's true — still moved toward the front , showing here and there from behind the first-rate , titled ones , if only as fragments : an ear , a piece of temple , a cheek or a jaw … just to be closer to the Emperor 's eye ! |
| 3 | Beyond this , the use of biography , its actual ability to throw light ( rather than just to be entertaining and nice to have around ) , seems to be a fantasy . |
| 4 | The greatest acting role in an audition is to appear just to be yourself . |
| 5 | In fact I think she will live forever just to spite me . |
| 6 | There was a church just to the north of there that had a reputation for being helpful towards homeless people — I 'd try my luck there . |
| 7 | ‘ OK , we 'll make it half-eight just to be on the safe side . ’ |
| 8 | This applies to every type of aircraft and not just to gliders . |
| 9 | Just to be clear , what 's this ‘ prig ’ , ‘ hypocrite ’ . |
| 10 | Below and just to the right of the balcony are several one pitch climbs : Delirium très mince ( 6a ) is probably the hardest . |
| 11 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 12 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 13 | Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century . |
| 14 | Despite what Mrs Sangster says , the jettisoning of the Sangster flagship will be seen as further evidence of her husband falling behind in racing 's power game , in which it is no longer enough just to be a run-of-the-mill millionaire . |
| 15 | But just to be on the safe side Mrs Lawson was stationed in 11 Downing Street , giving her husband a convenient reason to visit the capital if circumstances took a sudden turn for the worse . |
| 16 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 17 | One uezd in Simbirsk guberniia , just to the west of Samara and nearly as badly affected , had been assessed for tax at 470,000 pudy in 1919 on a good crop , of which 350,000 had been collected . |
| 18 | From the heights of Foel-cwmcerwyn , just to the east , you are supposed to be able to see Exmoor , Snowdonia and the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland . |
| 19 | Do not make for it but bear half right aiming just to right of nearest bushes . |
| 20 | Emerge on to estate road , turn right and after 50 yds where road bends right , take gate ahead and cross parkland , passing just to left of Fawsley church . |
| 21 | But they are generally happy just to programme and share the pleasant experience of listening to popular music on the radio . |
| 22 | I 'm not here just to be Chairman , I 'm here because I believe in things . ’ |
| 23 | That night we eat puffin , just to be sociable . |
| 24 | It means it will apply to everybody , not just to Grunwick strikers . |
| 25 | Sometimes he talks in a foreign language — you know , just to himself like . |
| 26 | Just to herself — you know , not out loud like she normally does . |
| 27 | Phaedra , the all-powerful matriarch , conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus , who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty . |
| 28 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 29 | ‘ Just to the bend — to clear my head . |
| 30 | If exercise is beneficial to health , it must not be left just to Seb Coe or Daley Thompson . |