Example sentences of "[was/were] just [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 3 | No , well I mean , it were n't as though I had n't put a payment in it were just that it probably was this taking Tracey 's book and I marked it onto Tracey 's , er , Tracey 's book . |
| 4 | They were just and merciful . |
| 5 | They were just as I remembered them . |
| 6 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 7 | The idea of biology having important lessons for control is not new , but in this case the Sheffield group would have the willing and enthusiastic support of two control engineers — Harry Nicholson and Vince Femando — who were just as excited about the prospects for collaboration as their new biological colleagues . |
| 8 | ‘ It was great , the letters were just as they were when we received them . ’ |
| 9 | You never could tell with Felipe de Santis and at the moment things were just as he wanted them . |
| 10 | It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots . |
| 11 | It was just after you left for your meeting . |
| 12 | It was just after I found I was pregnant , but I was so pleased for him , and for myself , I did not fret . |
| 13 | This was just after Kelly had been killed , so everybody was aware of the danger . |
| 14 | This was just after the Licensing Act was repealed , which had previously confined printers to London , York , and Oxford and Cambridge universities . |
| 15 | It was just after Francis died . |
| 16 | And it and this , the one , the last one was just after I left so I did n't know her , I knew her to look at but I did n't know her personally . |
| 17 | I was just after some informal advice from a friend who works in the main office , really . ’ |
| 18 | It was just after we 'd heard about Mary . |
| 19 | It was just after this that I was privileged to be able to visit the British Museum and by the courtesy of Mr Rex Barker , son-in-law of the landlord of the Five Bells , Mr McCaffery , I was able to view and handle the remains of our oldest inhabitant . |
| 20 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |
| 21 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 22 | It was just after we got married , , and he was a Lancashire lad , he came from somewhere of the suburbs of Manchester , I 've forgotten whereabouts he was |
| 23 | And it was just after Frank had left her and gone to live in that place in . |
| 24 | No it was just it was just so you , I mean let's face it , er my father used to mend our shoes , repair our shoes , in fact I 've still got his hobbing iron now . |
| 25 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 26 | And it was just But I do n't er I do n't seem as though er it was er sometimes I saw I saw a spot of blood , but it |
| 27 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 28 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 29 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 30 | It was just that their minds went — ‘ Space Oddity ’ — guys are going into space — sounds like a commercial idea — go for it . |