Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 2 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 3 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 4 | ‘ Actually , you 've come at just the right moment . |
| 5 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 6 | If searching was done with just the basic actions , then R1.1 would only gain its first bit of credit after the fifth search , and then it would gain a mere 1/64th. of a point of credit . |
| 7 | Thin-section petrography is a standard geological technique , fundamental to determining the mineralogical and textural characteristics of rocks ; it can be applied in just the same way to ceramic materials . |
| 8 | A fragment from an altarpiece can not be appraised in just the same way as an independent portrait ; and a craftsman 's skill is esteemed more accurately when the materials used are rightly identified . |
| 9 | Rhubarb fool is made in just the same way as gooseberry fool , but needs an even larger proportion of sugar , preferably dark brown , and it is very necessary when the rhubarb is cooked to put it in a colander or sieve and let the excess juice drain off before the purée is made and the cream added . |
| 10 | More traditional error correcting techniques can be used as a last resort , and if they are applied to just the top-rated candidate string this should avoid the potentially explosive problem . |
| 11 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 12 | The pulses of light passing through the slots are converted to electrical signals by the photocell and are treated in just the same way as those of the mechanical system . |
| 13 | We may consider the procedure for one component of the velocity ; the other components and the pressure are treated in just the same way . |
| 14 | Armed with the appropriate value of the small-signal complex impedance , the signal response of a nonlinear network to any small input may be found in just the same way as the response of a linear network to an input of any magnitude . |
| 15 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 16 | The rubber takes a grip on the shell and forces it between the rollers , which are set at just the right distance apart so that they crack the shell without damaging the kernel . |
| 17 | Such right-context effects ( Thompson 84 ) are not limited to just the initial portion of the utterance . |
| 18 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 19 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 20 | The mass is apparently about right , and the Z o has appeared at just the right frequency . |
| 21 | Anchorians peaked at just the right time to win Division A of the Peroni League , while Oxford University have one of the country 's best outdoor coaches pulling the strings . |
| 22 | Fortunately the shelling had ceased with just the occasional mortar burst close at hand when the Duty Officer made his rounds at ‘ stand-to' ’ . |
| 23 | To the medieval historian who is invariably left with just the concluding record of administration procedure , this discussion on documenting the provenance of data generation may smack a little of over spoon-feeding the historian of the future . |
| 24 | Cups and saucers were arranged at just the right angle beside the small plates , and the bone-handled knives were correctly positioned to the right of each plate . |
| 25 | If these variations pass through the criterion for instability ( such as the critical Reynolds number of the entry boundary layer ) , the instability can be renewed at just the same phase of each cycle and the flow will pulsate with a well-defined period . |
| 26 | But other workers have now shown that retinoic acid is actually present in the limb , and its concentration is graded in just the right direction . |
| 27 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 28 | But the Guildford Four were released at just the wrong time , and the government quietly put the scheme on the back burner — indefinitely , it would seem . |