Example sentences of "with just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The April Saturday was mild , with just the faintest threat of showers . |
| 2 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 3 | Finally , in the third kind of Friedmann model , with just the critical rate of expansion , space is flat ( and therefore is also infinite ) . |
| 4 | The output from the feedforward control is intended to provide the motor with just the extra push which will bring it to the required setting . |
| 5 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 6 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 7 | Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow , inexorable growth . |
| 8 | Alexeev commands a wide tonal palette and his lighter , filigree strokes , ( e.g. in the G major and E flat major préludes ) k , but all in all this is a most satisfying interpretation , with just the right balance between control/taste and fascinating notes from the late Gerald Abraham . |
| 9 | I was relaxed , confident , with just the right amount of adrenalin pumping through my veins . |
| 10 | The three knurled rotaries feel good , with just the right amount of damping . |
| 11 | That 's something we at Sumitomo Bank keep in mind when we deal with our customers , combining our specialized expertise in international banking with original thinking to offer service with just the right character to fit their particular needs . |
| 12 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 13 | The beautiful opening on the Moscow River is delicate , grey , understated ; the introduction to Marfa 's conjuration has a murkiness that prepares for her entry with just the right atmosphere and weight . |
| 14 | A good listener , she responded sensitively , with just the right questions . |
| 15 | This is a charming small town , or perhaps overgrown village , with just the right kind of simple hotels to tempt you to stop off here . |
| 16 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 17 | Alex sipped her wine , which was cool and fruity , with just the right degree of dryness . |
| 18 | Her voice was perfect , she estimated — appealing , weak , but with just the right amount of braveness to it . |
| 19 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 20 | That leaves the Scots with just the All Blacks to beat , this summer . |
| 21 | I did one exam before I went up , then had three years at Oxford with just the final exams at the end . |
| 22 | Open beach marks at Dyffryn and Talybont have seen little angling activity with just the odd dab and rockling . |
| 23 | We drifted down past Magdalen Fellows ' Garden , borne along on the current with just the odd stroke to correct our course . |
| 24 | I love the long bare hills with just the odd clump of trees . |
| 25 | Batty more or less played this 5 man in defence anyway with just the odd run forward , so maybe Wilko will just ask him to drop back a bit . |
| 26 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 27 | Fortunately the shelling had ceased with just the occasional mortar burst close at hand when the Duty Officer made his rounds at ‘ stand-to' ’ . |
| 28 | The conversation goes well , and we progress confidently along a tightrope of loose connections , with just the occasional wobble . |
| 29 | COMPARED to Wednesday 's winter blizzards , which had reduced the first day to 27 instead of 36 holes , the conditions for the Peter McEvoy Trophy at Copt Heath yesterday were wonderful — icy winds and leaden skies with just the occasional hint of a watery sun . |
| 30 | The cloudy conditions will persist through the evening and overnight with just the occasional spot of drizzle , mainly over the hills . |