Example sentences of "[is] just " in BNC.
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| 61 | He remarks to his son that unhappiness is just as necessary to mankind as happiness — one of those cherished convictions of Dostoevsky that get slipped in when our attention is elsewhere . |
| 62 | But , as Peter immediately tells his father , this is just the sort of bon mot to expect from an idler who is being kept in the lap of luxury . |
| 63 | It needs to be remembered that the format is not primarily designed for printing on paper ; this is just a handy feature . |
| 64 | The battery voltage is just 4.5V and the plug unterminated . |
| 65 | Given the sources of deconstructionism in Nietzsche among others , it is just as likely to have a nihilist-reactionary dimension as a progressive one . |
| 66 | It is hard to speak against a situation that makes everyone happy , but one has to say it represents a form of intellectual inflation that is just as pernicious in its way as monetary inflation . |
| 67 | All the same Schneidau 's argument is just and illuminating , so far as it goes . |
| 68 | In postwar Britain , the clothes , accents , and diction of the siblings may have changed , but , so far as I can judge , the suffocating insular coziness is just the same . |
| 69 | It is just here , I suspect , that we — many of us — are ‘ turned off ’ . |
| 70 | Which is just as well , because long-haired rock is what you will get . |
| 71 | Unfortunately for Berger , both stops were exceptionally slick and , judging by the controversial aftermath of Nigel Mansell 's botched pit stop in Portugal last week , perhaps that is just as well . |
| 72 | But such mutual exchange is just what human beings are incapable of sustaining consistently . |
| 73 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 74 | The British territory is just an hour away by hydrofoil , and its newspapers , television , and radio carry frequent accounts of the current confidence crisis in the territory . |
| 75 | Sunday Grandstand 's average is just two million . |
| 76 | This is just as well because high interest rates have led to some of Wehmiller 's customers in the UK deferring capital purchases in the short term . |
| 77 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 78 | Dependence on charity is just as debilitating as dependence on the state , if not more so . |
| 79 | The average age of the senators is just under 70 . |
| 80 | Walter 's position as house-husband is just an affectation , the result of having read ‘ all the right books ’ . |
| 81 | ‘ It 's clear that Pamina is just as much on trial as Pamino . |
| 82 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 83 | While Halliday takes on a new role , David Irwin is just happy to return to the scene . |
| 84 | Carlotta is just comforting herself . |
| 85 | Although the uncertainty helped Saatchi shares yesterday , it is just as likely to cause movements in the other direction until the picture becomes clearer . |
| 86 | It carries a bit more weight in its nose ( diesel engines are heavier than petrol ) but the derv-sipping AX is just as agile as its petroleum cousins . |
| 87 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 88 | ‘ The League appear to be saying that the difference between scrapping and cynical wounding is just three matches . ’ |
| 89 | Quiberon is just south of the village of Carnac , where mile-long alleys of menhirs , or standing-stones , erected in prehistoric times , wade through fields of tall rose-beige grass . |
| 90 | Suddenly , there is just the slightest hint that Mr Murdoch is losing the magic touch , and for many investment banks and financial institutions around the world that magic touch was the main reason for backing him . |