Example sentences of "[prep] just about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 2 | Such is his make-up that he will come for just about any centre because he believes he can reach the ball . |
| 3 | ‘ Not easily , not quickly , but I am not prepared to abandon the ambition of having a fully working economy , and having a fully working economy means there are jobs available for just about everybody who is looking for a job . ’ |
| 4 | Another effect of media censorship is that , far from leaving the public unaware of black people being involved in crime , many people now think that they are responsible for just about all the crime they read about . |
| 5 | Luckily there are associations for just about every type of person , problem and interest nowadays . |
| 6 | Residential centres and holiday packages for just about any interest . |
| 7 | Somerset is what you want it to be — there 's something for just about everybody . |
| 8 | Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in . |
| 9 | They work for just about everybody , given the right choice of shade . |
| 10 | The TRI-R Hanger I caters for just about every hanging requirement in the house and garden . |
| 11 | Clubs are asked to support a special appeal , organised by the Commonwealth Trust , by sending £20 to the Disaster Appeal which will qualify them for entry into a draw with many prizes — headed up by Cathay Pacific 's donation of two First Class London/Hong Kong round trips plus tickets for the 1993 Hong Kong Sevens — as well as tickets for just about every top sporting event to be staged next year in the British Isles — test cricket , rugby internationals , Open golf , Grand National , Formula One racing , and so on . |
| 12 | This makes it an attractive base for radical groups ; at least until recently , offices for just about every outlawed Arab Islamic organisation could be found in Peshawar . |
| 13 | For just about everything in country music has changed hugely since the mid-1980s — except the music . |
| 14 | Palm-greasing for just about anything from entry to a favoured school to obtaining a bank loan has been considered a fact of life . |
| 15 | The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 . |
| 16 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 17 | According to Gordon Fenton , the Royal Bank 's Community Affairs Manager , the exhibitions have something for just about everyone . |
| 18 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 19 | The training ground and low-cost facilities which this will provide will allow access for just about anyone to the means of moving image expression . |
| 20 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 21 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 22 | For just about every utterance has this context-dependency , due in no small part ( at least in many languages ) to tense . |
| 23 | Its been wrotten weather for sport wrotten weather for just about anything this weekend … so let's give you some sunshine … we 're off to Brazil to Rio … for news of a Gloucester girl in the British Steel … |
| 24 | With a list ranging from vocational and leisure courses to adult basic education , there 's something for just about everyone . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's Gary I mean he 's left a gap there 's room for just about a car either side of him |
| 26 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 27 | And that is happening currently with people in schools in Oxford , who come to me for Business Studies , for just about one or two weeks tuition , they then go and pass . |
| 28 | America seems critical of just about everything Japanese : its persistent trade surplus , its reluctance to liberalise rice imports , its failure so far to provide even a token force in the Gulf . |
| 29 | His temperament — for tolerating the heat of competition at least — and technique are the equal of all , the better of just about all . |
| 30 | Their first foods can consist of just about anything small enough to be eaten — newly-hatched brineshrimp nauplii , microworms , finely sifted daphnia , and powdered flake . |