Example sentences of "is [adv] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ballantyne 's boys are about twenty five years old and the oldest boy in Golding 's book is only just twelve . |
| 2 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 3 | His own father had given him his creed for life — ‘ the best is only just good enough for you ’ — and he himself preached that doctrine until the day he died , in 1987 . |
| 4 | If , indeed , more than one craftsman was responsible , it is only just possible to be sure of areas where relevant contrasts occur . |
| 5 | Version 5 , which is only just available , will , no doubt , bring even more choices and I look forward to exploring it . |
| 6 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 7 | Once this is done , Japan 's electronics companies will begin to compete in a market that is only just emerging — selling software packages for personal computers . |
| 8 | Those with Crohn 's disease who still retain their pouch , however , have a bowel frequency that is only just greater than in those patients having the operation for ulcerative colitis . |
| 9 | Sharpe , meanwhile , is only just short of breaking Art Monk 's NFL record of 106 catches in a season , set in 1984 . |
| 10 | Clearly there is a spectrum ranging from " inadequate " that is clearly wrong to " inadequate " that is only just short of . |
| 11 | It has meant in some schemes there is only just enough money to pay current penioners , with nothing left for people approaching retirement age . |
| 12 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 13 | Inclusive tour operation is thus just one , and sometimes a very small , part of the parent company 's business . |
| 14 | For example , it is not just private organisations and individuals who take legal action against auditors . |
| 15 | In a Christian view , therefore , work is not just necessary in order to live but the result of an irrepressible drive which is rewarding in its own right . |
| 16 | To promise £35 billion-worth of extras and then to renationalise these concerns — as has been said , it might cost as much as £10 billion — is not just absurd but highly irresponsible . |
| 17 | Moreover , it is not just live tissues that are consumed as bark feeding is widespread among mammals , e.g. orangutans , elephants , rhinoceros and squirrels , besides many invertebrates . |
| 18 | The price the user pays for this approach is not just financial , programs of this type require large amounts of memory and hard disk systems to operate properly . |
| 19 | The interference in local government by central Government is not just financial , but political . |
| 20 | There may be badly thought out things , but there is not just clumsy stuff , but there is also is n't any wild card . |
| 21 | The mentality that produces such a procedure is not just unacceptable itself — as well as irksome to would-be candidates . |
| 22 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 23 | His approach is particularly important in helping us to grasp that control is not just negative , and might in fact be just as tight today despite an ostensible ‘ liberalisation ’ , that power over sexuality is not in the simple form of censorship and denial but in regulation and organisation , and that this takes many forms . |
| 24 | But it is not just prospective parents who have contact with mentally handicapped people , and the attitudes of many people in positions of authority are crucial in that they will make decisions which will affect the lives of our mentally handicapped community . |
| 25 | For example , the young reader needs to understand the idea of ‘ sequencing ’ — the idea that a series of pictures can tell a story , that Quentin Blake 's Mister Magnolia is not just many separate , entertaining pictures ( such as Dick Bruna 's b is for bear ) but that the pictures are telling a story . |
| 26 | Singing and dancing is not just good for the spirits , it 's also good for the heart and lungs and the limbs ! |
| 27 | But , thanks to ICMS , a Sainsbury 's tomato , not to mention lettuce , potato or any other JS salad , fruit or vegetable , is not just good value for money , it is also helping to save the earth . |
| 28 | Since tomorrow 's materials will be better than today 's , delay is not just pointless procrastination . |
| 29 | Another collection , edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill Hintikka , Discovering Reality ( 1983 ) , a wide-ranging and challenging selection of essays in epistemology , metaphysics , methodology and philosophy of science , argues that it is not just content but also methodological assumptions and epistemology which show male bias . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not just terrible , ’ he said , ‘ it is a crime . |