Example sentences of "was [adv] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main wall was presumably just two courses , as will be the new one . |
| 2 | They thought it was perhaps just that . |
| 3 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 4 | It was only just four o'clock now , so Dr Russell should stay safely out of the way for another ten minutes , by which time Deana would be gone again . |
| 5 | I started to shrink … smaller … and smaller … until I was only just bigger than Sam , my soldier . |
| 6 | The kerf ( saw cut ) is of minimal width and , when the prices were re-assembled , the joint was only just visible . |
| 7 | In the gloom he was only just visible , the gleam of his teeth when he smiled , his pale hair and clothes . |
| 8 | I was only just eight . |
| 9 | At the end of four months it was discovered that he was only just sixteen . |
| 10 | This was particularly important as it was a field in which full-time education was only just emerging , and the development coincided with the early days of the CNAA . |
| 11 | Oliver was only just awake and his eyes were half-closed , so he seemed to be still fast asleep . |
| 12 | And , I suppose , to make a plea on the spot for greater support in the shape of better crews , because I believed the best was only just good enough . |
| 13 | Uncle Hilbert , however , was only just sixty , very hale and hearty , still very much in practice as a solicitor , and Lewis could not imagine stepping into his shoes , nor did he in those days think it very nice to anticipate such things . |
| 14 | It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and , apart from that , the box was only just long enough to take it . |
| 15 | On Sunday , August 14th. 1682 , Richard Baxter was in great pain and weakness , and was only just able to preach twice . |
| 16 | I was only just able to take care of myself so further responsibility I could not take . |
| 17 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 18 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 19 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 20 | The rear of the Toyota was only just clear of the water as I jumped out , checking to see if it would be possible using the low gear to push the rock over the edge . |
| 21 | The situation was only just controllable , but it seemed that we might get to bed before midnight without being beaten up . |
| 22 | These were the basic tools of Mr Kronweiser 's research , and the study was only just big enough to hold them and him . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't see why not — after all I was only just twenty-one when I married Mark . ’ |
| 24 | Cos that was only just ten minutes going back . |
| 25 | Instead , despite the ostensible commitment to ‘ flexibility ’ there was apparently just one version of good practice , presented as a package of recommendations and principles and exemplified in the model classroom . |
| 26 | Although Parrott knocked in 81 — the best break of the quarter-final clash — his agony was over just 31 minutes later . |
| 27 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
| 28 | But the Schuman Plan was not just economic . |
| 29 | It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | The period immediately following upon the end of the war had been characterised by the belief that expenditure on education was not just necessary or worthy' but essential : through education , society could and would be transformed . |