Example sentences of "be just [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you see , ’ her mother explained , drawing her close with an arm around her bony shoulders , ‘ you 'll be looking after boys soon and things are just like they say , boys do n't make passes at girls who wear glasses . ’ |
| 2 | Nozick , for example , formulates an entitlement theory of justice , in which a person 's property holdings are just if they are acquired through some just act of original acquisition or by some just transfer . |
| 3 | Obviously , the real nasties , Sun readers , are just as they have always been , vile and pretty anti-gay . |
| 4 | The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be . |
| 5 | They 've changed all the things that used to be just because they know Like form twos always used to have an end of term leaving party . |
| 6 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 7 | ‘ It was great , the letters were just as they were when we received them . ’ |
| 8 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
| 9 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 10 | Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do . |
| 11 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 12 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 13 | It is just that they have no other choice . |
| 14 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 15 | I think the biggest thing really is just like they say , is how much you can get that done for and , get the roofing done , that 's got ta be done . |
| 16 | It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out . |
| 17 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 18 | It 's just that they 'll make such a fuss . |
| 19 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 20 | ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents . |
| 21 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 22 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 23 | It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited . |
| 24 | It 's just that they say if you 're doing physics sometimes you know this might help you |
| 25 | It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year |
| 26 | After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap . |
| 27 | It 's just that they should call that part of their work journalism . |
| 28 | It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ? |
| 29 | It 's not er a really a teaching which er is important , it 's just that they know that er we have a Sikh assembly and since then er I have found er they have a type of great moral courage , they 're proud of themselves . |
| 30 | No it 's just that they take ages and ages and ages cos Dundee will ask Nottingham , Nottingham will ask us to bring the notes back , then we 'll send them to Nottingham , Nottingham will send them to Dundee , Dundee will send them to your G P . |