Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] just [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element . |
| 2 | In other words , Firbas , like Halliday , acknowledges that a unit of information may consist of a given plus new element , or of just a new element . |
| 3 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 4 | Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself . |
| 5 | ‘ Ready , ’ Fabbiano said , and for just an instant Caroline felt a clutch of something that was very close to panic . |
| 6 | Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again . |
| 7 | The man looked dangerous , and with just the two of them in this house , with no one around within screaming distance , she was n't taking any chances . |
| 8 | Stradlin sings like a proper rock singer ; gravelly and unshaven and with just the tiniest hint that he would like some sex fairly soon . |
| 9 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 10 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 11 | You see I mean er er and this generally , I mean ju just as when Stalin claimed to be communist , that claim has been accepted by the great majority of people writing about what was happening in Russia in the West and in just the same way the Chinese leadership er after nineteen forty nine claimed to be communist , claimed to be standing in the tradition of Marx and that claim , generally speaking , has been accepted . |
| 12 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 13 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 14 | Her voice was perfect , she estimated — appealing , weak , but with just the right amount of braveness to it . |
| 15 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 16 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |
| 17 | ‘ Not short back and sides , but to just the right height so you can see the rest of the garden . ’ |