Example sentences of "be [verb] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 2 | The latest and most thorough had been completed just before I took over the chairman-ship . |
| 3 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 4 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 5 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 6 | We are waiting just as you are , as the whole world is waiting , ’ a spokeswoman at the convent said . |
| 7 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 8 | Labour MP Bob Cryer said the matter should not be dismissed just because Mr Brown had won his appeal . |
| 9 | Should not be treated just because it 's there |
| 10 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm naming the squad for the game against Norway on Thursday and , as I 've already indicated , he will be included just as he was in Spain early this month . |
| 12 | Although these patterns can be used just as they are , they are also useful for experimenting with whilst you are learning to use the program . |
| 13 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 14 | Why should you be condemned just because you 've put your money into your house ? |
| 15 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 16 | Yet , you may well be doing just that when you write one press release for the former magazine and another on the same subject for the latter because both publications are on your public relations media schedule as targets . |
| 17 | Nowadays , wine can be sealed just as , or sometimes more , effectively with a ‘ crown cork ’ — the crimped-edged metal cap used for beer . |
| 18 | Proust , the most admired of all novelists among academics , appears to be saying just that when he writes that ‘ only true paradises are those one has lost ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Mum and dad will be coming just as they are with no red and white or blue and white scarves , ’ said David . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see why this splendid open space should not be restored just because it 's 50 years since it was taken in a national emergency , ’ he said . |
| 21 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 22 | Would she and Stephen be sitting just as they were now and be suddenly unable to remember anything that had happened because nothing would have been real ? |
| 23 | He was concerned that the room must be left just as Durance would have wished . |
| 24 | Windley intended that the first camp should be started just before the next batch of moran formed their manyattas , so that those who passed through it would then be an influence for good on their fellows . |
| 25 | In Canada illegally obtained wire-tapping evidence can be excluded just as any other illegally obtained evidence may be excluded . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll be leavin' just as soon as Ah 've had a final word with our friend here . |
| 27 | The " me-too " opportunity should not be ignored just because of its lack of creativity . |
| 28 | This brief flurry of brick-building will leave one with a house plus chimney , to be maintained just as before . |
| 29 | Everything had to be maintained just as it had been — for the day when Isabelle returned to Les Hiboux . |
| 30 | A report by the Resource Assessment Commission ( RAC ) set up by Hawke in 1983 to examine all natural resources disputes , is due to be published just after the " resource security " legislation is enacted . |