Example sentences of "is just [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ guide ’ is just that and is not intended as a rigid rule . |
| 2 | Alan is just 26 and it 's probably purely that which has got him my vote . |
| 3 | Heat it in a jug of hot water until it is just warm and check it 's not too hot by testing a drop on the inside of your wrist . |
| 4 | The workmanship is just classic as well . ’ |
| 5 | Andy Collins is just piss-poor and ordinary , just like The Farm . |
| 6 | The other danger arose from Government departments squeezing a small bill into the Queen 's Speech : ‘ They say it is just two or three little clauses and … it immediately turns out that the process is not nearly as simple as was promised . |
| 7 | If we are cunning , we can design the hierarchy so that every path at every level is just two or three steps long . |
| 8 | Mind you , this place is just average as hostels go . |
| 9 | It is just possible that you are one of those rare people who has never seriously tried to diet . |
| 10 | It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency . |
| 11 | Rugby will not get any change out of Leicester , but it is just possible that Nottingham are now so fired up that they might escape with the point they need at Orrell . |
| 12 | It is just possible that the tide is now turning for social works with the opportunity for specialisation and new roles in the Community Care service . |
| 13 | It is just possible that this is a master stroke on the part of the CEGB : focus attention on a topic that really has little to do with the inspector . |
| 14 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 15 | It is just possible that , given the choice , they might prefer the risk of an occasional torn ear or scratched nose to the certainty of a totally sexless adult life . |
| 16 | Those in the Culpeper vault at Hollingbourne , Kent , fall into this category , though it is just possible that the flat-lidded rectangular shell encasing Elizabeth Culpeper ( d.1638 ) did have an outer case . |
| 17 | I suppose it is just possible that Hippodameia was set next her father , Sterope on the other side ( cross-linking the wings , like the archers in the east pediment at Aegina , above , p. 45 ) , and Pausanias was wrong in this point too . |
| 18 | It is just possible that this far-off configuration will be unstable , and that the Sun will draw the Moon away into an independent orbit around the Sun , leaving the Earth Moon-less . |
| 19 | It is just possible that it does exactly the opposite . |
| 20 | While either variant may derive from the chronological lists , discussed just below , or from Nesri , it is just possible that Ali 's 833 results from a careless reading of Taskopruzade 's account . |
| 21 | It is just possible that d'Ohsson means Molla Fenari , whom he does not otherwise mention ; but even the earliest possible date for Molla Fenari 's becoming Multi , roughly 1380 , is too late to allow for any possibility of his having succeeded Tursun Fakih . |
| 22 | And it is just possible that Western ideas in psychiatry could be incorporated into a relativity model . |
| 23 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |
| 24 | If a hacker gains access to confidential files stored on a computer , it is just possible that the law of confidence might be used to prevent the hacker from making use of the information assuming , of course , that the hacker can be identified . |
| 25 | It is just possible that these properties would be sufficient , together with the abilities required by specific tasks , to engender a coordinated interdigitation of actions that would ( remotely ) resemble human interaction . |
| 26 | It is a combination that is just possible but rare . |
| 27 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 28 | is part of which I think is just ridiculous and will be a nice well meaning democratic tolerant guy in but considering the history of those two countries I rather doubt it erm and I , I think the best way of securing er the safety of that population is actually to change the border before the borders are are fixed and settled and before these countries actually become independent . |
| 29 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 30 | Right what we 've got t like to sort of talk about now is just one or two aspects ab about defensive driving techniques . |