Example sentences of "they be just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most of them are just ordinary — cotton or print , and drab coloured … ’ |
| 2 | But Cher insists they are just good friends . |
| 3 | If they are just possible they provide stress . |
| 4 | In practice , they are just ordinary people who for some reason — and the reason is often accidental — have become involved with the mentally handicapped . |
| 5 | They are just ordinary , normal people , which I like , ’ he says . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 7 | I 've often heard him call women ‘ tarts ’ when they are just young , attractive and dress a bit sexily . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They are just black shadows in the vegetation , ’ he told me , increasingly worried that we might not get any shots at all . |
| 9 | Besides , they are just impoverished students . |
| 10 | Boil chickpeas for about 30 minutes until they are just tender , then drain . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | After the horror stories about the dogs I hesitate to go near my first one , but with us they are just big balls of fur . |
| 13 | They are just plain difficult and like giving everyone a bad time . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , they are just different regions of a single universe , the laws of science would have to be the same in each region , because otherwise one could not move continuously from one region to another . |
| 15 | They are just different , all aliens . ’ |
| 16 | At the time you do not analyse the reasons for love-affairs — they are just instinctive — they just happen . |
| 17 | A pair of Harpies nest here , as they are just able to squeeze in and out of the narrow windows . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They 're just ignorant , ’ Anne urged , but John said stubbornly , ‘ Yes , but the fact remains I 'm an outcast . |
| 21 | They 're just annoying strips of nylon that flap in the breeze . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's really hard to overcome that , to just shake it off and say , ‘ Oh well , they 're just dumb kids , maybe they 'll throw away their Skid Row records and listen to Mudhoney because of us … ’ but that story 's old . |
| 23 | ‘ If they 're always late , ’ said Wendy , a little more loudly , ‘ then they 're not late , they 're just normal . |
| 24 | But they insist they 're just normal . |
| 25 | They 're just normal ones , are n't they ? |
| 26 | They 're just logical things to do . |
| 27 | Well , they 're just nice are n't they ? |
| 28 | They 're just nice and comfortable at the end of the day when your feet are really swollen but nice and easy to wear but if it 's tight |
| 29 | But they 're just cynical , they know all the dirty tricks . |
| 30 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |