Example sentences of "just [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch .
2 So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it .
3 Thérèse and Léonie lay flat on their stomachs , heads well down , just where the long grass began , peeping through the stems itchy with insects .
4 as if to replenish it , just where the old fellow
5 The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner .
6 There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet .
7 OLD Krems is built on the slope of the Danube 's left bank just where the little river Krems joins its greater sister .
8 Just supposing the two conditions were met , what were the Unionists proposing ?
9 Just because the poor sod made a mistake !
10 Just because the two have been associated for over 2,000 years , there 's no reason to believe in such a link .
11 Similarly , the falsificationist must prefer the claim that the velocity of light in a vacuum is 299.8 × 10 6 metres per second to the less-precise claim that it is about 300 × 10 6 metres per second , just because the first is more falsifiable than the second .
12 Yet it would be odd logic not to repair the machine just because the current might one day be cut off again .
13 Just because out-to-lunch Morrissey is dropping in references to ‘ Ride A White Swan ’ and because Pulp 's singer wears David Essex-type attire and lampoons a ‘ camp stance ’ and just because the current guitar rock scene is useless ( except Sugar ) , do not fob this glitter-rock crap off on our gullible pop nation .
14 The use of the same word in everyday language ( the force of circumstance , gale-force-winds , the force of an argument , etc. ) is imprecise just because the corresponding theories are multifarious and imprecise .
15 Just because the regional dimension has not received the attention afforded to monetary union , that does not mean that it is less important to our future economic well-being .
16 Britain 's manufacturing base is declining not just because the Conservative party seems to care so little about it but because of so many companies ' wilful refusal to respond to changing market signals .
17 ‘ To say you have to buy new shoes just because the high-tech elements are damaged is a lot of bull , ’ claims Vic Robinson of Cobblers Awl .
18 But more upon the just because the unjust have the just 's umbrella but er this happens all the time .
19 Just because the human ear is ‘ deaf ’ to high frequency and low frequency sounds , as every scientist knows , it does not mean they do not exist , nor that we can not be affected by them .
20 Just because the wretched man was holding her arm ?
21 Whether this new investigation has been ordered partly as a response to the assertions made by the New York firm of O'Toole-Ewald Arts Associates , whose services Goldreyer engaged just after the first report was released by the Rijswijk laboratories , is not certain .
22 Under chaotic boundary conditions , the probability of finding any particular region of space in any given configuration just after the big bang is the same , in some sense , as the probability of finding it in any other configuration : the initial state of the universe is chosen purely randomly .
23 The Chesterfield line platforms at Staveley Central looking north , probably just after the whole line had closed in 1966 .
24 He then spent between three and four weeks in Crete before moving , just after the German parachute invasion began , to Egypt .
25 Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out .
26 I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) .
27 The last car , 328 was delivered in June 1954 , just before the new Manager took office .
28 Just before the first egg is layed , the male seals the female in with a wall of clay and mud , helped by the female herself from within .
29 Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place .
30 The initially slender police presence had been strengthened by reinforcements just before the unmarked buses arrived , but they were unable to stop scores of protesters .
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