Example sentences of "just [verb] to be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night , after heavy drinking in Soho Minton turned up at the house where they were living , broke a window , and climbed in , saying , ‘ I just want to be part of you . ’ |
| 2 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 3 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 4 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 5 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 6 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 7 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 8 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 9 | Erm science at the moment we 've just covered erm things like angular momentum erm it just tends to be stuff like that we 've done simple harmonic motion er |
| 10 | It was n't just going to be papers , it could be health clinics , bookshops , making a network of people sharing lifestyles and indeed an economic base . |
| 11 | Just seems to be kids and . |
| 12 | ( I hear Anya 's hiss of horror ) ‘ but we might just manage to be friends . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes you come across patients you feel have been coached on what to say , or who just claim to be residents . |
| 14 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 15 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 16 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 17 | But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . |