Example sentences of "be just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's more than a little apt for its group finance director , since he could have been just about anything he wanted in life , and what 's more , he confesses , he was almost a politician . |
| 2 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 3 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 4 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 5 | The slow down in the rate of growth in the Eurocurrency market-growth that has been just about static since the early 1980's — can perhaps be attributed to the fact that domestic markets have become increasingly deregulated , while the foreign currency activities of domestic banks have become increasingly regulated by domestic central banks . |
| 6 | Adams added : ‘ I am just about stony broke . ’ |
| 7 | Truth is , the two cars are just about equally matched when it comes to acceleration in each gear . |
| 8 | ‘ On complex issues , Cabinet committees are just about the worst possible way of arriving at sensible decisions … . |
| 9 | However , the semicircular child 's shrimp nets are just about passable for occasional use . |
| 10 | There are just about the right number of ladies to infuriate the right-thinking and to make effective use of primary colours as highlight and contrast ; Kate Hoey in lime , Gillian Shephard in vivid egg custard , Alice Mahon in a fetching cerise , Glenda Jackson in a decent , sombre , high-necked red , Margaret Beckett , that oldtime leftist , even had a floor-cross royal blue . |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon , ’ said Angalo , looking down , ‘ that humans are just about intelligent enough to be crazy . ’ |
| 12 | Small nuclear explosions underground ( they are already banned everywhere else ) are just about impossible to distinguish reliably from other sorts of man-made bangs or earthquakes . |
| 13 | But skinny wee tyres like this thing 's got are just about ideal . ’ |
| 14 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
| 15 | Jenny and I are just about dropping in our traces . |
| 16 | Anyway , I imagine you are just about ready for your course — pencils sharpened & bag packed . |
| 17 | You are just about a match for anyone , are n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | At the end of what has not been the easiest of years for trading conditions , I am pleased to say that we are just about on target and set fair for 1993 . |
| 19 | They are just about ready to go out . |
| 20 | If you start throwing fragments of aeroplanes into heaps , the odds of your happening to hit upon exactly the same arrangement of junk twice are just about as low as the odds of your throwing together a working airliner . |
| 21 | and things are just about going to plan |
| 22 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears and Newcastle Diamonds were outclassed in their heats of the Heat Team Championship and are just about eliminated from the competition . |
| 23 | It 's because Richmond Tories are just about the region 's last bastion of a once great electoral tradition the village hall public meeting . |
| 24 | But the paying customers are just about outnumbered at the moment by a very big posse of travelling Italian journalists just to my left and all pretty excitable by our normal quiet English standards . |
| 25 | I 've just been looking at the end-May figures and notice we 're just about holding our own on the Gesamt . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're just about making enough from traditional paperweights to keep the Specialist Division afloat . |
| 27 | But he retired , too ; they 're just about all gone , the old team . |
| 28 | I , we 're just about the middle of the road with it er , |
| 29 | ‘ I think we 're just about quits now , do n't you ? |
| 30 | I bet you 're just about ready for some good home cookin' , ’ he mimicked the interviewer 's style , making Paige choke on a laugh . |