Example sentences of "just [conj] 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 It 's just that the preceding F&W 's EPs have already lured us to bed with wine and roses and five of the tracks are here ; familiar as those passport photos you keep forgetting to chuck out of your wallet .
9 He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves .
10 It was just that the straight world 's men , from Strategic Air Command to the invaders of Prague , seemed to think along similar lines , if leading to different ends .
11 Just that the latter will have to lower their expectations and make do with imperfect versions of the former .
12 It does n't imply the failure of science and the need to recognise the existence of a non-material mind ; just that the digital computer is a different sort of system to the brain .
13 ‘ It is not just that the unwanted presence of rainbow trout can ruin the sport but there is also the environmental impact of these strangers , ’ said a spokesman .
14 It 's just that the new terminologies and notations offer extra insight and clarity of expression and enable more powerful methods to be developed .
15 It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing .
16 ‘ It 's just that the only person who saw her on Saturday was the Minister — Mr Hawick . ’
17 It 's just that the standard methods of triangulation and trigonometrical calculation take so much more manpower and time and are only possible with the advent of modern mathematics and the invention of the decimal point and zero , which the circle markers did not have .
18 It 's just that the poor get caught more often .
19 It was not just that the Old King possessed the greater resources — which he did -he was also able to overwhelm his enemies by sheer speed of movement .
20 It was n't that the new treatment was particularly bad , it was just that the very idea of a re-mix fell directly against the grain of the code of ethics publicly laid down by The Smiths .
21 There was no formal power play there , it was just that the very fabric of his psyche was about being central , the central person , the interesting person and everybody collaborated in that .
22 He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space .
23 Right so it 's not just that the National Party want the people on the ground to choose the nice addresses .
24 I suppose it 's just that the English are my tribe .
25 It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor .
26 Remember the little truth theory that we did in lecture two or three , or when you do semantics in logic by swinging two model theories , when you interpret the expressions of a logical language , you have to assign a structure and , er the claim here is just that the natural language , that structure , structure that the semantic interpretation rules apply to , it 's just the syntactic structure .
27 Just supposing the two conditions were met , what were the Unionists proposing ?
28 Just because the poor sod made a mistake !
29 Just because the two have been associated for over 2,000 years , there 's no reason to believe in such a link .
30 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 .
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