Example sentences of "just [verb] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PROFITBOSS has no option : he just has to be the best in his chosen area . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know about being a sex symbol — I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine in your cornflakes , ’ he laughs . |
| 3 | I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine on your cornflakes ! |
| 4 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 5 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 6 | That game just happens to be the Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Avoca . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 8 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
| 9 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 10 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 11 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 12 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 13 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 14 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 15 | Dysart just happened to be the one she chose . |
| 16 | just happened to be the children 's , that 's all . |
| 17 | ‘ Like Grete , I just try to be the same person . |
| 18 | You know like she 's she just wanted to be the daughter like . |
| 19 | And so in the blazing heat of the next day Martha was supplied with a small replica of the new green , black and gold Jamaican flag and hoisted on to her stepfather 's shoulders at the gates of what had just ceased to be the colonial governor 's mansion , to see a small erect figure in the back of a Rolls-Royce drive slowly away . |
| 20 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 21 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 22 | The stars of the show here just have to be the aged scratchplate , covers and knobs that I mentioned earlier . |