Example sentences of "have just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 2 | The neck has just the right amount of forward relief , and needs no adjustment to the truss rod . |
| 3 | He stands over 13.2hh now and has just the right mixture of quality and substance . |
| 4 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 5 | ‘ The one at Porton Down has just the same safety device . |
| 6 | The best Corinthian work of the seventh century , with its tense strength and controlled balance of decorative and representational , has just the same character as the great bronze griffin-heads . |
| 7 | Bottle-wrack 's reproductive habit has exactly the effect of increasing this ratio ; splurge-weed 's habit has just the opposite effect . |
| 8 | Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife . |
| 9 | Unlike most clergy houses , which had either too little furniture in them for reasons of poverty or too much from the wrong sort of inheritance , Canon Wheeler 's had just the right amount in the right places . |
| 10 | He 'd been back again the following weekend , and he had had just the same unsettling effect on her . |
| 11 | Embryonic development is very sensitive to having just the right number of genes and so in females one of the X chromosomes is inactivated early in development , leaving just one functional X chromosome in each cell . |
| 12 | One of these is that of balancing the line — having just the right number of operatives for the various work stations on the line . |
| 13 | She said she was just having just the usual drinking gear and er |
| 14 | But it seems to me to be having just the opposite effect . ’ |
| 15 | Some stimuli in the environment will help you diet , and some will have just the opposite effect . |
| 16 | Clearly , training that allows the subjects to come to the task with these associations ready formed will be of help ; and equally clearly , reversed pre-training will have just the opposite effect . |
| 17 | Under the new proposals , people are to have just the one tax bill each year , covering all their income . |
| 18 | But Kylie had just the right look and style and character . |
| 19 | Seve had just the right sort of build-up to the 1979 Open at Lytham : he won the English Classic at The Belfry , the first time it was played , and then he came second in the Scandinavian Open in Sweden . |
| 20 | He picked out the small nematode that had just the right characteristics , and single-handed , he established a thriving field from scratch . |
| 21 | The pens had the ordinary steel nibs and it was essential that they had just the right amount of ink on them or blots resulted . |
| 22 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 23 | Well , hang on , we 've got one pizza shared out between four people , right , erm how many pizzas would you go , you think that was just right that , that was wonderful , we all had just the right amount of pizza , when we had a quarter , when we had one shared between the four of us |
| 24 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 25 | They had just the one son , Cecil , but four daughters , Ella , Connie , Rance and Muriel . |
| 26 | I wondered if he had just the one broker . |
| 27 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 28 | You 're going to get more , it 's just as if we had just the big pipe from the |
| 29 | Who else but Runcorn could give an impromptu hour-long lecture on any geophysical topic and probably have just the right slides in his pocket to support it ? |
| 30 | If you feel like crying , too , Bloomsbury publishers have just the right antidote . |