Example sentences of "just the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to Holland and Belgium last August with the Ireland training panel but failed to win my first cap , but helping Ulster to another Leinster Regiment Cup may be just the springboard this time . ’ |
| 2 | For Max , it was perfectly normal , just the way one expected to start out on such a chequered route through life . |
| 3 | Just the way any woman talks to a baby , you understand ? |
| 4 | ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’ |
| 5 | They said the light moved in just the way this one seemed to be doing . |
| 6 | Down there , of course , Kylie is just the Superstar Next Door . |
| 7 | No it 's just the clock alright ? |
| 8 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 9 | So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well . |
| 10 | Passchendaele , now only a ‘ brick-coloured stain' in the mud , with just the church recognizable as a building , was heavily defended by Germans with machine-guns in concrete pillboxes . |
| 11 | It 's just just the word that 's all . |
| 12 | I 've got a lady 's shell jacket , you know th like a shell suit but it 's just the jacket separate . |
| 13 | Can we go over those again just the pause one . |
| 14 | Just the cover that 's all . |
| 15 | Liberal economic policies , including deregulation of trade , financial services , and privatisation , have created a flourishing zone of small industries — clothes-making , shoes , toys — of just the sort that a poor country needs . |
| 16 | Rachel kneels behind me whispering in my ear , ‘ You never told me about Jancey ’ and I tell her she 's just the woman next door and Rachel says , ‘ Oh yeah ? ’ and I push her onto her back and sit astride her in the dark . |
| 17 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 18 | A new insurance policy launched for the first time at the London Boat Show might be just the thing many long distance sailors are looking for . |
| 19 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 20 | That 's , that 's just the figure that Abbey have said , that 's the amount , they 'll be happy to pay |
| 21 | Built by Tim Bryan , it can be raced as shown , fitted with an outrigger for stability and twin sails or assembled with just the end two of its three sections to give a 7.3m canoe . |
| 22 | Congress works by building coalitions ; to aim at just the ghetto poor — wholly urban and overwhelmingly black — would attract too narrow a coalition . |