Example sentences of "just [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a good enough reason for coming is just to sample the friendly local hospitality and exotic food . |
| 2 | She wanted desperately to start a family — and not just to silence the constant enquiries of well-meaning friends and relatives . |
| 3 | Firstly , there is the cost of the increased staff required just to work the proposed system . |
| 4 | Many then prefer to sail together — especially if their navigation is shaky — just to find the right destination ! |
| 5 | Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share . |
| 6 | Show me any homebuilder who ca n't say the same thing about his project , but the finish-it-in-thirty-days-using-only-domestic-handtools ! brochures never tell you that , nor that it may take you weeks just to create the right kind of workplace in which to build your masterpiece . |
| 7 | WE were amazed John Major put off his meeting with Jacques Delors just to announce the formal separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales . |
| 8 | He used this argument not just to win the passive support of the miners ' wives and other dependants but also to mobilize their active participation . |
| 9 | ‘ Everyone in the industry is working harder than ever before , just to win the same amount of business . |
| 10 | I 'd happily part with my money just to hear the sensational Philadelphia/Ormandy Rachmaninov Vocalise ( ‘ Never mind the meal , just turn down the lights ! ’ ) . |
| 11 | Therefore they find it just to overthrow the Northern statelet by whatever degree of force proves necessary . |
| 12 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 13 | It would have been better just to let the natural reaction show through . |
| 14 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 15 | That 's what I did , yesterday morning went with my mate came back , stuck it on so it 's cost me the , the pads were seventeen twenty , thirty pound for the what 's a name and fifty quid near enough just to do the front brakes . |
| 16 | Ours not to reason why — ours just to read the ruddy instruments and let others sort the problems out . |
| 17 | Basically , what it is , they er , want to computerise a collection of some one hundred million words of written and spoken text , that can used by dictionary compilers which are there just to study the English language . |
| 18 | Implicit in the use of the problem-solving approach described above is the aim of helping people acquire coping skills which can be used not just to solve the current problems but also to deal with some of those that may occur subsequently . |
| 19 | Yeah , I just er , like to , just to welcome the ongoing commitment to the Treasurers Department , to keep down the er , charges to the public service units through C E C. Obviously this is to the benefit , and gives them the , a greater chance of succeeding out there , in what is a difficult market place . |
| 20 | Just to complete the amazing change in fortunes , Mike Allingham ripped on to a short lineout throw from Kenny Milne , who then took his scrum-half 's pass and bullocked his way over from about ten metres out , Lawrie adding the two points . |
| 21 | The radio plays continually , and some folk come in just to check the hourly news . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe she did n't get round to asking him much about himself yet , ’ Rose said just to break the brooding silence . |
| 23 | just to get the general picture , let me an exact period , let's get estimates because we have no idea , er , so estimates might be made or the management costs , four months or six months would you say before anybody moved in ? |
| 24 | Answer : they have bribed , connived , schemed , cheated and bullied everyone in sight , just to get the odd game or two . |
| 25 | And er we used to try and them in the garden just to get the odd one or two for somebody you know . |
| 26 | I get head spin , and end up lolling out of the car , dribbling through my nose onto the tarmac just to get the vile bitter taste of nicotine out of my mouth . |
| 27 | She had behaved quite out of character just to get the better of him . |
| 28 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 29 | Just to get the full effect . |
| 30 | Britain 's strategy was not just to block the Six , but to have something in place should they succeed in getting their common market off the ground . |