Example sentences of "be just [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 2 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 3 | ( In the 1989 election the FL , with 7.56 per cent of the vote , had been just below the minimum 8 per cent necessary to win representation ) . |
| 4 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 5 | I was about eleven at the time , it must have been just after the war . |
| 6 | Well , and I went to Ipswich well it must have been just after the war then |
| 7 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 8 | I am a good citizen , a nice person ; I am just at the moment in the grip of a sexual passion , in the throes of love ; I am alive : I who have been so nearly dead for decades , which is why I am currently neglecting them , just a little . |
| 9 | The Germans are just over the river there — I 'm off on a recce directly — and I have n't time to muck about . |
| 10 | The cold weather payment scheme is still wholly inadequate , with thousands of pensioners whose incomes are just above the income support level receiving no extra help with their fuel charges . |
| 11 | After about three hours , we got through and we asked her what had happened and she said ‘ everything is fine … the tanks are just across the road ’ , and my mum did n't know what to say because we were all so upset . |
| 12 | ‘ We are just at the beginning of the worldwide epidemic and the situation is still very unstable . |
| 13 | He added , ‘ We are just at the beginning of the worldwide epidemic and the situation is still very unstable . |
| 14 | Lead acid batteries are just at the moment very heavy compared with petrol , but there are many alternative types of battery being researched . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ we are just at the end of the recession and we are about to come out on some sort of curve ’ . |
| 16 | you , you are just at the end of the line , and you take it off her so you take the pressure off her . |
| 17 | Attractive family run hotel , facing seafront , the Aquarium and Palace Pier , historic Royal Pavilion and famous Lanes are just down the road , Brighton Centre nearby . |
| 18 | The problem can be solved neatly by setting the mixer output so that the signal peaks at levels which are just below the threshold at which the automatic gain control comes into operation . |
| 19 | This is so even though results determination is weighted in the deserving candidate 's favour : extra marks are automatically allocated to those with a good aggregate score who are just below the pass mark in one or two papers . |
| 20 | If we are just with the horse in an easy fashion , empathy comes more easily . |
| 21 | Yeah , just as a , as a side issue , I am interested that they 've been growing plum tomatoes because each year I hear of more and more people growing plum tomatoes successfully in this country and while we are just on the subject of diseases and things to control them , you may remember that a few weeks ago we were giving advice on how we should dispose of waste garden chemicals and , and we said you ought to pour it down an outside drain . |
| 22 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |
| 23 | Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner . |
| 24 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 25 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 26 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 27 | The way this business is moving , you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner . |
| 28 | Spokesman John Dunwell said : ‘ Our premises in Zetland Road are just round the corner from from the town 's red light district and some of our members do not like using the building because of the district 's association with prostitution . |
| 29 | Rehang the appropriate shoulder of the first piece you knitted from its waste yarn on to the needles you have just emptied , with the right side towards you and pulling the needles out so that the stitches are just behind the latches . |
| 30 | Situated close to the S'Amfora , these lively and very attractive apartments are just behind the Britannia bar and restaurant and are some of the best appointed on the island . |