Example sentences of "be [adv] just [coord] " in BNC.

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1 A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants .
2 ‘ Islamic laws are more just and effective , as far as the offender is concerned — and as far as the public that needs to be protected is concerned .
3 The practical difference between the two theories of adjudication is therefore this : in a conventionalist regime judges would not think themselves free to change rules adopted pursuant to the reigning legal conventions just because on balance a different rule would be more just or efficient .
4 If this were a simple and one-way movement , the answer would lie in ensuring that the record of achievement is up to date and intelligible , that assessment records are accurate and that the pastoral record , if any , is both just and constructive .
5 Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test .
6 In practice this may be a very difficult exercise to undertake because in order to decide what is intrinsically just and reasonable the court will surely have to apply some rule of construction .
7 Furness was strong and forceful by nature and wielded a power in his Departments , although he was always just and fair with his employees .
8 Coherence would be guaranteed because officials would always do what was perfectly just and fair .
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