Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 2 | The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be . |
| 3 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
| 4 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 5 | The telephone was just as it should be , with no bugging device to turn his private conversations into public knowledge . |
| 6 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 7 | The room was just as I 'd left it , except that it was different . |
| 8 | The point is just that some basic concepts relating to the experience curve may still be valuable if used with intelligence and discretion . |
| 9 | The point is just whether the randomness is sufficient for the statistical description to be the most appropriate . |
| 10 | I mean the colour 's just as , it 's not quite as strong . |
| 11 | Among other contributions , Neil Allen looks pityingly at athletics and boxing , and the stink is just as pronounced in soccer . |
| 12 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 13 | The answer is just that it simplifies interpretation of the figures by reducing uneven streams of benefits and costs to a single index of NPV ( or IRR ) . |
| 14 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 15 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 16 | A theatre packed with enthusiasts , including more than 140 critics from all over the West , shows that the company is just as appreciated by the rest of the world , too . |
| 17 | A balance between the things of this world and those of the next is represented in the scales to which the eyes are directed , an interpretation that was once confirmed by a quotation from Leviticus 19:36 inscribed on the frame : ‘ Let the balance be just and the weights equal ’ . |
| 18 | The time is just after you have ordered a Forfar bridie . |
| 19 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 20 | The house was just as I 'd left it — just as you 'd left it . |
| 21 | Inside , the house was just as Bertha had left it when being carried away by ambulance . |