Example sentences of "just about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cultivated maize and water melons and the crops were just about ripe when the army came one night without warning and destroyed everything . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John Major 's inestimable contribution was to allow people to vote Conservative and still feel they were just about decent human beings . |
| 4 | ‘ Not Dynasty -type scripts , just about normal working class families and things that have happened to me ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That sounds just about normal . |
| 6 | And I had a test , and the old Colonel and Colchester came to see now and how you 're getting on , he was , just about retiring he wanted a different desk in his office . |
| 7 | Yeah but he 's just about retiring age anyway is n't he . |
| 8 | Fortunately his calculations were accurate and the chemistry department at Manchester is still just about intact . |
| 9 | The teaching of communications demands that students approach the subject in a way that entails thinking , not just about individual ideas or issues , but about the relationship between those ideas and also the social location of those ideas . |
| 10 | ‘ Professionalism is n't just about legal skills , it 's also about all the other aspects such as handling clients , selling , and dealing with people , ’ said Neill Mulvie , chief executive of Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been on telly just about non-stop for 12 months , but I 've got a few ideas I have n't had time to work on . ’ |
| 12 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 13 | The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand . |
| 14 | A the moment it is in most cases just about possible to say that , according to a family history , a certain risk exists . |
| 15 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 16 | it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head . |
| 17 | Adams added : ‘ I am just about stony broke . ’ |
| 18 | Mathematics is not just about developing facility for number : it is essentially a subject which has links with all other curriculum areas and should never be taught in isolation . |
| 19 | In Oxford , Karen 's insistence that our affair be conducted in public was just about feasible . |
| 20 | She had nowhere to aim for and she was just about destitute , and there was trouble following her as well . |
| 21 | Each month we take note of your letters and try to redress the balance , hoping that over the year we get it just about right . |
| 22 | This year he seems to have got it just about right . |
| 23 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 24 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 25 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 26 | The Mad Axe 's very impressive acoustic sustain helps a lot on clean settings , and for rich , Knopfler-type sounds the pickups are voiced just about right . |
| 27 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 28 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 29 | This survey suggests that the Health Department has got it just about right . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's just about right . |