Example sentences of "be just [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows exactly what she means — he was brought up in a street that might have been just round the corner . |
| 2 | Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner . |
| 3 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 4 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 5 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 6 | The way this business is moving , you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner . |
| 7 | Spokesman John Dunwell said : ‘ Our premises in Zetland Road are just round the corner from from the town 's red light district and some of our members do not like using the building because of the district 's association with prostitution . |
| 8 | They 're just round the corner . |
| 9 | And I said oh no , they 're just round the corner . |
| 10 | She might think we 're just around the corner and that we 're not coming to see her . |
| 11 | So far no-one has succeded in activating methane , but if the current rate of progress is maintained that feat must be just around the corner . |
| 12 | Everyone stayed awake instead , believing that something exciting had to be just around the corner . |
| 13 | The Bengali lady who enrolled in an English cookery class , so that she could provide English food for some of her son 's chums at school , is likely next to take a GCSE in English and help prepare herself for a job that may be just around the corner . |
| 14 | Even then , when others were talking of fusion reactors being just around the corner , Cockcroft warmed that ‘ it is difficult for us with our limited vision to see far enough ahead to say whether and when the final goal can be achieved . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's about nobody ever going away but always being just round the corner , waiting to be caught up with . |
| 16 | Equally , however , there are respected industry commentators who are certain that the first agreed takeover of a building society is just around the corner . |
| 17 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 18 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |
| 19 | Angora II is just around the corner in a quieter cul-de-sac . |
| 20 | This was indeed good advice but considering that the full impact of ‘ 1992 ’ is just around the corner , his advice was rather belated . |
| 21 | But now that retirement is just around the corner we are all really looking forward to spending more time there . |
| 22 | The Manchester Business School and Cambridge University both reckon that the boom on the high street is just around the corner . |
| 23 | But recovery , the OECD argues ( with a familiar ring ) , is just around the corner : it expects average growth next year to rise to 2.7% . |
| 24 | Preston Street with its many varied restaurants is just around the corner . |
| 25 | In the early stages of the Depression he relied on optimistic statements to keep people 's spirits up — " prosperity is just around the corner " he said in 1930 — and on gaining the voluntary co-operation of business leaders in maintaining employment and wages . |
| 26 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 27 | The hotel is just around the corner , maybe a few corners , but almost no distance . |
| 28 | Ours is just around the corner . |
| 29 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 30 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |