Example sentences of "were just [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They were just physically impossible to move in and out of the studios .
2 They were just slightly different types of work which were being done .
3 ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting .
4 ‘ They were just so close .
5 Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever .
6 ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’
7 ‘ People in the crowd were just so great , I wanted to savour every moment . ’
8 they were just so amazed !
9 As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so .
10 ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ said Betty , ‘ they were just perfectly nice , ordinary people . ’
11 Behind the wall , beeches and chestnuts were just faintly jubilant in their near escapes from the weights of summer .
12 I do n't think living together first would have changed the outcome — we were just too young and unsuited . ’
13 His eyes were just too probing , too all-seeing .
14 As far as the tabloid music press were concerned , Nirvana were just too good to be true .
15 But they were just too late to get on .
16 There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ?
17 The trouble was they were just too far away to see things clearly , and also I could n't hear the sound .
18 We were just too busy , so it ended .
19 These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold .
20 Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother .
21 Talks with Courtaulds Coatings in Australia raised difficulties which could not be resolved — customers ' demands at opposite ends of the earth were just too difficult .
22 Maybe conditions were just too bad for a man forced to operate with only one shoe .
23 Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm .
24 ‘ Some of Isobel 's wonderful ideas were just too costly , but many others were totally practical and went into the mix .
25 The trouble is , the rises were just too slow .
26 This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable .
27 The machines were just too big .
28 For some the pumpkins were just too big to handle .
29 Problems of rot were always with us but there were other problems as well which were just as serious .
30 What is so fascinating is that maybe the medieval artists were just as ignorant of Latin .
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