Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] just [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the 1970s , it seemed clear to me that if any cellular or biochemical process was to be regarded as forming part of some type of memorial code , it must show just these features that the drug studies could not readily provide , of being both necessary and sufficient to account for the memory . |
| 2 | A court has ordered that an estranged father of two should pay just five pence a year towards his children 's welfare . |
| 3 | Now move in a little closer , and your next shot might show just one corner of the square which we can now see includes an attractive little feature : an ancient water-trough into which a cascade of water is pouring from the mouth of a gargoyle-like creature in stone . |
| 4 | Then I 'll have just three sets . |
| 5 | You 'll have just enough time to get there by ten . |
| 6 | A small settlement might have just one tomb : Knossos was ringed by such tombs . |
| 7 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
| 8 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
| 9 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 10 | ‘ If you could see just one show at the ( Edinburgh ) Festival , it would have to be this one ’ . |
| 11 | You could use just two canes if you prefer . |
| 12 | Where a file area contains N addresses we can expect : In theory we could provide just sufficient space in the file for all the records . |
| 13 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 14 | Then she 'd become just another notch on his bedpost — another victory , albeit not won with quite his usual ease . |
| 15 | For example you could have just one Troll in your army and it will count as a unit on its own . |
| 16 | Well you could have just one aspirin . |
| 17 | This suggested that they were endothermic , something also pointed out by Robert Bakker , who showed that growth from a ceratopsian egg to a one-ton creature could take just five years . |
| 18 | Certainly , judged from a purely clinical standpoint the Jubilate reveals all of the features of psychotic thought disorder , of which , chosen at random from its 1739 lines , we may cite just one example ( B590 — 4 ) : |
| 19 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 20 | I used to do just occasional jobs you know . |
| 21 | Current estimations reveal that the Admiral 's Cup may attract just eight teams , from Britain , America , Australia , Japan , Germany , France , Denmark and Italy . |
| 22 | If the Frau would wait just one moment then . ’ |
| 23 | I shall give just two examples . |
| 24 | I shall give just one example here . |
| 25 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |
| 26 | It is inconceivable that a developer would use just 103 calls in any case , says Price , warning that ‘ Posix does n't mean portability . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . |
| 28 | ‘ I would like just one thing , Your Majesty . ’ |
| 29 | Ideally , we would like just these settings Sk to appear , and no others ; and each should appear with its natural frequency Fk . |
| 30 | All she had to do was cross a couple of wires and George would become just another victim of a tragic domestic ‘ accident ’ . |