Example sentences of "a [noun] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two dentists had been killed in their clinic by a shell just before the convoy arrived , and after it left shots were fired at the medical shift coming from Sarajevo to relieve the surgeons . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 3 | To lay an egg , the female grasps a hair and deposits some ‘ cement ’ which is extruded on to a hair just before the egg is laid . |
| 4 | Trying to isolate a cow just as she starts to calve is the worst solution possible . |
| 5 | Another dealer explained : ‘ There are some punters who will buy a stock just because it has fallen a long way . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It would be naive and stupid to think we have a walkover just because we are favourites for the First Division title . |
| 7 | Some say it is an irresponsible attitude but is n't it more irresponsible to use a vote just because the law commands it ? |
| 8 | Above all , make an effort not to develop psychological reactions to chemicals — never assume that you are going to react to a chemical just because you have in the past . |
| 9 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 10 | The pilot slammed the powerful jets into reverse thrust , bringing the giant plane to a halt just before he ran out of runway . |
| 11 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Most men think Cleo is a boy just because I do n't dress her in pink frocks . ’ |
| 13 | A woman as socially assured as Alison Kraemer does n't get her knickers in a twist just because an acquaintance , however unsuitably married , asks her how she enjoyed the concert . |
| 14 | They had originally offered £100,000 for Fox , who asked relegated Rovers for a move just before he left on the Lions tour Down Under in May . |
| 15 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 16 | It just depends on where we live I 'm not gon na go to a place just because of a school |
| 17 | But , head to head with the world 's No 1 , the strapping Scot had had a four-under- par 66 to his conqueror 's 68 and the satisfaction of having unfurled a draw just when he needed it most . |
| 18 | Does the Minister agree that life-long education is a right , not a privilege , and that it should not be any less of a right just because a person happens to be disabled ? |
| 19 | Mr Stockdale authorised the £227,000 payment as part of a package just before he resigned . |
| 20 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 21 | Also the decision to employ or not to employ is based ont he particular case : it is extremely rare that someone is given a job just because they went to a particular university . |
| 22 | The bookcase may be useful as a bookcase just as the essay once written may contain useful understanding and knowledge . |
| 23 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 24 | A NURSE smiled and pulled faces at a friend just before a van ploughed into the back of her car , causing fatal injuries . |
| 25 | The Nun 's Priest therefore emerges from his tale as a character — a character who adopts an amusing persona as the teller of a tale just as Chaucer does in his narrator-pilgrim " Chaucer " . |
| 26 | Each member of the family had his or her picture taken at least once : there , recorded for posterity , is father Benjamin , leaning back comfortably in a chair just as he had done when sitting for Mr. Adkin all those years before , still wearing his favourite ring on the little finger of his right hand . |
| 27 | You would , of course , not be likely to select a sequence just because it would stand on its own . |
| 28 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 29 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 30 | The work of Robert Seyfarth ( 1976 ) has demonstrated that wild female baboons in a multi-male troop structure maintain a hierarchy just as males do . |