Example sentences of "[conj] they be just [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So in an effort to find out whether are blind , or they 're just weird , we asked a member of a party of visitors from Tokyo , Miss Takishima , to be kind enough to let us process the film in her camera .
2 You 're just paying for the convenience , are n't you , really with tea-bags , that they 're just all sealed , you know .
3 Never is it allowable for an individual or a team to have an off day for the very simple and plausible reason that they are just tired !
4 Conversely , some people who are a great deal heavier than they should be can persuade themselves that they are just right ( or simply ‘ big framed ’ ) .
5 ‘ She was making these excuses that they were just good friends , and all she did was his typing . ’
6 The truth was that they were just jealous they had not thought of it before and made all of that money .
7 No they 're just two standard stores , one 's twenty five thousand square feet in Yeovil which as you will be aware is a market town with a fairly wide catchment area and in Cardiff which where we 're opposite Marks and Spencers on an out-of-town development so they 're just two stores virtually picked because they were ready to open
8 I know dozens of officers with their own quirks of taste , dress and behaviour and they 're just real people who 'd be incomplete without such little fads .
9 And he 's been there now about three years and they 're just surviving , and he 's says , I 'm earning roughly what I was here but I 'm working literally twice the hours .
10 Bacon 's college which cost around a quarter , around eighteen million to build , has now been open , has only been open since September 1991 , and they 're just more details which I 've got ta add while I 'm writing it , that 's just the beginning write on the front page
11 The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that .
12 Japanese erm , boy and girl as well , and they were just adorable , just so good , such lovely looking children Japanese
13 And they were just worried that if they did n't join in , they were n't part of the club then er
14 Oh , ye , even if they 're just quiet
15 If they are just possible they provide stress .
16 Cos they were just twenty one last year .
17 Boil chickpeas for about 30 minutes until they are just tender , then drain .
18 Chemical giant ICI and Shell UK may seem like unlikely environmental saviours but they 're just two of the many firms pumping thousands into projects like this one .
19 But they 're just cynical , they know all the dirty tricks .
20 She had to share ( the bathroom and lavatory ) much to her annoyance , but they were just next to her room .
21 Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky .
22 And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless .
23 And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless .
24 Yes yes entrance and er no it 's up to them whether they 're just visiting
25 I 've often heard him call women ‘ tarts ’ when they are just young , attractive and dress a bit sexily . ’
26 A pair of Harpies nest here , as they are just able to squeeze in and out of the narrow windows .
27 So in fact , we could have caused chaos on Oxpens Road by parking the bus on double yellow lines and making a big thing of getting handicapped children out , in and out of a specialised vehicle , but we , we actually prefer not to do that , and we go on the car park each week , and we pay the same fee as anybody else fee , pays because er we feel that that 's the right and proper place for us to be and the children to be , as they 're just ordinary members of the community with some special needs .
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