Example sentences of "can just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Lord Rees-Mogg 's confession that he is not a modernist can just about explain his neglect of artists such as Schoenberg , Proust , Kafka , Beckett and Auden , sheer ignorance is the only way in which one can account for the omission of Charles Sherrington , Alan Hodgkin , Lord Adrian and David Hubel , to name but four in neurophysiology ; Rutherford , Bohr , Planck , Heisenberg , Dirac and Gell-Man in physics . |
| 2 | You can just about excuse Porsche for not altering the external shape , but forgiveness is impossible when it concerns the interior . |
| 3 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 4 | We can just about afford it from immediate funds , and I trust I have your support in this work . |
| 5 | At the finish of the contest we can just about call Jacob the victor . |
| 6 | With the ends waxed to reduce water loss , and packed in damp newspaper , budwood can just about survive for 10 days , until back at the nursery the buds skill and experience , this operation can be exasperatingly with skill and experience , this operation can be exasperatingly unsuccessful . |
| 7 | I think I can just about manage whisky . ’ |
| 8 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 9 | Slachman 's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in . |
| 10 | You can just about cling on to the periphery of things if you 're in Bristol , but once you 're past there forget it . |
| 11 | The typically inner shape is high and wide so you can at the least sit up comfortably — in some of the models you can just about stand . |
| 12 | I can just about see that B & B we had in Tobermory , and — hang on a minute … |
| 13 | If one crewman is slain then the remaining crew can just about cope without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 14 | If one crewman is slain the other two can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 15 | If one crewman is slain the other two can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 16 | If one crewman is slain then the rest can just about get by without reducing the rate of fire . |
| 17 | I can just about split it with × 20 , but not easily . |
| 18 | Most of its stars are bluish-white , but there is one red supergiant which stands out ; I can just about detect its colour with × 12 , though admittedly a telescope is needed to show the cluster in its full splendour . |
| 19 | The pair can just about be split with × 20 , but certainly not with any lower magnification . |
| 20 | In a good light , I can just about tell white from red . |
| 21 | I can just about remember my own , but I do n't rack up the angst if I have to extract the address book and look up Oliver Russell in it . |
| 22 | which you can just about see here a in conjunction with the puss cells with which it is busily |
| 23 | I can just about get down here of a morning and then I 'm stuck until someone gives me a' and up , which they do n't want to be doing too often , do they dear ? " |
| 24 | they would n't understand Whereas we can just about understand Chaucer . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I can just about see the cemetery up there . ’ |
| 26 | One can just about imagine the monstrous labours of the eventual demolition ( centuries away , long after my time ) , and the eventual creation of the pleasant land — the green , the promised . |
| 27 | Intellectually I can just about accept that violence is salutary , that violence is good . |
| 28 | The outlines of the old house can just about be traced : lumps in the ground , grass-covered old rubble . |
| 29 | " I think I can just about manage that . " |
| 30 | ‘ Look , Mum , ’ he said , ‘ I can just about stand Christmas dinner as a family get-together . |