Example sentences of "[vb -s] to be just " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 2 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
| 3 | Bad habits on the old presses could be tolerated , but with the new ones ‘ the whole process has to be just right ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It has to be just a little longer , straighter and perhaps more masculine . ’ |
| 5 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone who 's prepared to use a child as a pawn just to score points in some personal vendetta has to be just about the lowest form of life . |
| 7 | It has to be just about the most melancholy job in Government , cataloguing the Treasury 's human detritus . |
| 8 | Everything has to be just so for me to be able to learn . |
| 9 | Yeah it wants to be just enough inside here that it frightens them . |
| 10 | Your Watson , then , needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being . |
| 11 | So the power needs to be just slightly slightly raised okay . |
| 12 | A horse that pulls with his ears forward tends to be just eager . |
| 13 | In this way , casting ceases to be just an intermediary stage in the act of creation but is itself the finished product of that act . |
| 14 | The Pelagian connection appears to be just a confusion with the earlier myth . |
| 15 | It appears to be just a tragic accident . ’ |
| 16 | There appears to be just 60% of the residents supporting the scheme . |
| 17 | There appears to be just 60% of the residents supporting the scheme . |
| 18 | It just appears to be just a fraction out of focus maybe , I do n't know . |
| 19 | No insects and no fish have so far been found to use sonar , but two quite different groups of fish , one in South America and one in Africa , have developed a somewhat similar navigation system , which appears to be just about as sophisticated and which can be seen as a related , but different , solution to the same problem . |
| 20 | At first , finding P seems to be just as difficult as finding the two exchanges as P also moves four pieces . |
| 21 | If one is to recognize that there are applied linguists and language teachers in the world identifiable by the difference of role they play ( even though these roles may exist in different degrees of convergence ) then the division of responsibility which corresponds with appraisal and application seems to be just about the only one to make . |
| 22 | In the USSR and Japan , national teams are also pursuing the dream , but to many observers it seems to be just that — a dream that may not be fulfilled . |
| 23 | It seems to be just as important to show the child what is happening when he or she makes an " informed " contextual guess in reading . |
| 24 | The scientific explanation ( to be developed In the rest of this book ) seems to be just one , along with religious , medical or psychoanalytic and superstitious ones . |
| 25 | And one has a nasty feeling that this would be erm a , an O-level history candidate , where unfortunately that is , seems to be just the quality that 's required . |
| 26 | IRMA LA DOUCE promises to be just as vital and exciting as Century Theatre 's fabulous production of CABARET last year . |
| 27 | Today Gerry McInerney is again centre stage , and his clash with John Power promises to be just one of the highlights of an intriguing 70 minutes . |
| 28 | Today Gerry McInerney is again centre stage , and his clash with John Power promises to be just one of the highlights of an intriguing 70 minutes . |
| 29 | In the absence of an express agreement , under the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 the court will apportion the contributions between the vendors in such a manner as it considers to be just and equitable . |
| 30 | Yet another multipart game , only this time it manages to be just a little more feeble than the others . |