Example sentences of "[noun sg] be just [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks as if the intervention is effective but it may be that the child is just responding to rewards rather than learning new behaviour . |
| 2 | Although the gross changes in the brain that accompany and probably cause it can be studied after the death of the patient , the details of the disease process are just beginning to be worked out in animals by studying the microscopic structure of the brain regions that are principally involved together with their biochemistry and their neurotransmitters . |
| 3 | Yes they have , very special gear in , in breathing apparatus and protective clothing , er which I did n't have in my early days , I mean breathing apparatus was just beginning to be used . |
| 4 | While school education was just beginning to be suspected of extravagance , in the early sixties , paradoxically there was an explosion of growth in university education . |
| 5 | The complexities of later family life are just beginning to be recognised with studies of inter-generational caring relationships ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ; Abrams and Marsden , 1987 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 7 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 8 | Indeed , the company is just drawing to the end of a five- year £150 million capital investment programme . |
| 9 | For research purposes , the laboratory was just beginning to be separated from the kitchen ; but for the nineteenth century the centres were the laboratory and the museum . |