Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , when frog surface layer is placed on the newt near the mouth region , suckers develop in just the right place even though , in evolution , newts and frogs separated millions of years ago . |
| 2 | Traders do well to be careful in describing their merchandise for the section may catch not just the deliberate liar but also the honest trader who carelessly misdescribes his goods . |
| 3 | The fight , in which one Sardinian had slit another 's throat from ear to ear without succeeding in killing him , had been the last straw and had resulted in an unprecedented outburst of anti-Sardinian feeling that involved not just the affected area but the whole city . |
| 4 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 5 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 6 | Damian ffrench-Farce , their ‘ brilliant , totally undiscovered ’ interior designer , scoured dozens of builders ' yards , hunting down just the right sort of town-house brick , thrown out in the course of demolishing other houses of similar vintage ; when the supply ran out , bricks were made specially for them by local craftsmen . |
| 7 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 8 | It is therefore , Sartre argues , our historical task to make it known , promoting not just the historical process as such , but also the general recognition whereby the plurality of the meanings of individual histories can be seen to combine to make one history , with one meaning — the ‘ Truth of humanity ’ ( I , 822 ) . |
| 9 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 10 | Using the ranking ( or confidence ) information for the list of candidate strings , we can reduce the problem somewhat , by trying the standard four error correction approaches on just the top 10 candidate strings . |
| 11 | The company considers Germany to be a particularly key market , and during the year Psion GmbH broadened its customer base to cover not just the corporate market , but also retail outlets . |
| 12 | The short-lived benefits from the 1967 devaluation and the persistence of poor economic performance after the floating of sterling in 1972 , demonstrate not just the limited effect of devaluation but rather suggest that exchange rate difficulties are symptomatic of more fundamental problems [ National Institute , 1972 ] . |
| 13 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 14 | They showed that such models could start with a big bang , even though the galaxies were no longer always moving directly away from each other , but they claimed that this was still only possible in certain exceptional models in which the galaxies were all moving in just the right way . |
| 15 | The same general advice holds good : concentrate on following the flow of the argument and jot down just the key points within a coherent structure . |
| 16 | Contrary , then , to some of its more overreaching definitions , postmodernism itself could be said to mark not just the cultural effects of a new stage of ‘ late ’ capitalism , but the sense of the loss of European history and culture as History and Culture , the loss of their unquestioned place at the centre of the world . |
| 17 | Beirut had become not just the cultural capital of the Palestinian movement but the headquarters for Yassir Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 18 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 19 | Collecting together just the right information from scattered origins is obviously an important step in making a sensitive visual analysis of rotation relative to the environment . |
| 20 | For instance you see all these big they 'd actually built up from the ground up , they 'd no taking now just the odd . |
| 21 | Bringing people together , tirelessly fixing up dates and appointments , putting in just the right word at the crucial moment , helping to forge new partnerships , Milton conducted both his life and his business with an extraordinary degree of caring . |
| 22 | And they stick in just the right places to cause a new layer to be added to the crystal just like the layer below . |
| 23 | Kahlo 's naked body becomes not just the tortured self of her personal biography but a visual counterpart to the injured and defiled manifestations of Mexico 's colonised past : La Llorona ‘ the weeping woman ’ of popular myth and La Chingada , the raped and abused mother described in Paz 's The Labyrinth of Solitude . |
| 24 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 25 | The overhead track then stops , so the train runs on just the horizontal bottom supports . |
| 26 | Koresh was confronting not just the local sheriff but the government of the United States . |
| 27 | What infuriated not just the British and Americans , but also France 's five EEC partners was the manner in which , without consultation , de Gaulle announced a fait accompli " as though France were somehow the custodian of the Community 's purity " . |