Example sentences of "[conj] it be just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years , George still could n't decide whether they spent the time thinking or it was just to show they need n't really answer anything . |
| 2 | Some Irish nationalists hold that it is just to unite the nation by force — a typical view of secular nationalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe . |
| 3 | Once one of these grounds has been established , the party seeking the setting aside , which can be the adjudication officer or the claimant , must show that it is just to set the decision aside . |
| 4 | He was not at all impressed by her explanation that it was just to eliminate him from their inquiries . |
| 5 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 6 | Yeah and it 's just gon na finish it . |
| 7 | it 's one pound eighty and it 's just gon na be half |
| 8 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 9 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 10 | I said , ‘ Sure , ’ called the guys up , they flew down from Sydney and we played and it was just like we had n't stopped doing the pubs ; it felt real good . |
| 11 | That afternoon a friend came round , Ruth and Jim , and they come round with a bottle of champagne , the best you could buy , and it was just like we 'd had a baby … |
| 12 | ‘ They had to move them in a hurry when my people started going through the district and it was just intended as a temporary hiding-place . |
| 13 | And it was just reading , listen to , go and pick what books they wanted to . |
| 14 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 15 | It was now midnight and it was just beginning to rain . |
| 16 | I never met her and it was just talk in the shops , the corner shops were in those days were the gossip places , you know . |
| 17 | She was pregnant and it was just starting to show . |
| 18 | it was er now it was , now at the start of the new town er present East Kilbride a new town , it was known as a new town and it was just starting to build up . |
| 19 | There was a sign but it was and it was just cracked so cars behind me were just driving over it and nobody could , you ca n't see it . |
| 20 | I 'm just thinking now that er we changed lots of things , the heads and things of that nature so it was If it 's just producing the same cage |
| 21 | ‘ If it 's just to stop her from clinging round your neck … ’ |
| 22 | Yes , even if it 's just to say hello . |
| 23 | Your stringer should be able to explain these terms and more — and understanding some of the stringers ' buzz words can be useful , even if it 's just to impress your friends . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if it 's just starting up , ’ he said as the sound of pop music drifted towards them . |
| 25 | Just the same as , see there 's so many out of work the amount of people that are going for the jobs , there 's so many of them they erm they 're all got some sort of experience , even if it 's just doing a a week . |
| 26 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I think the full list would lose its stature if it was just to open its doors to everything . |
| 28 | ‘ If it was just defying the village I would n't think twice . |
| 29 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 30 | Cos it was just dripping off , cos it 's a tin roof , aluminium roof ! |