Example sentences of "[is] just [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 2 | It is just that it could have been more meaningful and less unpleasant had it felt a touch more like a pilgrimage than a harsh , faceless drive for productivity . |
| 3 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 4 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 5 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
| 6 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
| 7 | It is described as a comic love story for clumsy people , and it is just that : endearing , touching , and very , very funny . |
| 8 | It is just that politicians in power do show a tendency to become rather bogged down by the business in hand , and battered women , ill-educated toddlers and the tax status of child-minders have , for perfectly understandable reasons , so far not succeeded in exercising their imaginations . |
| 9 | It is just that their claim to power is completely out-of-date . |
| 10 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
| 11 | It is just that some days , and at some times , often in the early hours of the morning , sometimes this is what it feels like ; sometimes it gets me too . |
| 12 | I hope you do not think me unduly vain with regard to this last matter ; it is just that one never knows when one might be obliged to give out that one is from Darlington Hall , and it is important that one be attired at such times in a manner worthy of one 's position . |
| 13 | It is just that there are so many of them concerned with skin colour , each one having such a small effect , that they seem to blend . |
| 14 | Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It is just that going to the cinema has become inexorably linked with the purchase and consumption of such foods . |
| 17 | Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is just that there have been ‘ colossal changes in the transfer mechanisms ’ , he says , and widespread use of blood products , and increased homosexual promiscuity are but two of them . |
| 20 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 21 | It is just that I believe they are probably more rare than is claimed . |
| 22 | It is just that we Russians are living in unbearably horrible conditions . |
| 23 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose it is just that I have led a more open life than you . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 26 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 27 | It is just that he no longer thinks that filling every cavity is one of them . |
| 28 | It is not , indeed , ruled out by the logic of the naturalistic fallacy that degree of goodness and degree of pleasurableness might coincide , it is just that once one is free of the fallacy one will no longer see any reason to hold this . |
| 29 | It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others . |
| 30 | It is just that they have no other choice . |