Example sentences of "just the opposite " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , ‘ overdone ’ and ‘ unrealized ’ are just the opposite poles of a hyperactive musical intelligence . |
| 2 | Some stimuli in the environment will help you diet , and some will have just the opposite effect . |
| 3 | Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect . |
| 4 | Bottle-wrack 's reproductive habit has exactly the effect of increasing this ratio ; splurge-weed 's habit has just the opposite effect . |
| 5 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 6 | He sank into the part with total conviction or — just the opposite — he put it on with open contempt and boredom . |
| 7 | In the automobile industry , the reality is just the opposite — companies that are good at manufacturing are also good at development . |
| 8 | Mum and Dad do just the opposite , mostly because of Septimus ' wriggling , and ‘ one of those nights ’ ensues . |
| 9 | Smaller quantities of carboxymethyl cellulose , on the other hand , have just the opposite effect , helping to stick montmorillonite particles together . |
| 10 | If Deffenbacher is correct in his conclusion that effective arousal manipulations result in an impairment of memory , how is it possible for Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) to conclude just the opposite , both from their experimental results and a review of previous research ? |
| 11 | As Jespersen points out , " here we have a reference to an event that is past , or at any rate contemporaneous , in relation to the time of the main verb " , that is , just the opposite sequence of events to that which our hypothesis should have led us to expect . |
| 12 | I do n't think so , really it 's just the opposite problem of what we 've got over here , being submissive now we all know what being being sub submissive yes we let people walk all over us we do n't say yeah we we listen to what everybody else says and therefore the opposite is you 're gon na get aggressive to get what we want . |
| 13 | , so the complex number that is the square root , is either two in that pair , minus five , plus three , nine , or it is five minus three , nine , so it 's either that one , or it 's that one , and we can write that down very , very simply because that one and that one are just the opposite sides , but either plus or minus . |