Example sentences of "just that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If a yogi could tell us at any given moment what his digestive organs were doing , in chemical terms , and some constant monitoring apparatus attached to his intestines confirmed everything he said , then we might want to say yes ; for the performance would seem to show just that immediate awareness of goings-on that we think of as intuitively necessary for a Conscious process .
2 With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound .
3 Just that one brief moment of madness …
4 Another lever , which also worked for just that one hour , controlled the food supply .
5 ‘ When I look at Anna , I am reminded that , in just that one orphanage , there are still all those beautiful children with so much wasted potential . ’
6 And for a moment despair was overwhelmed by something more lively : by a sensation of such disgust that for just that one moment I was almost galvanized into rebellion .
7 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 .
8 It was just that one word , but it was enough .
9 It is not just that many of the old structures of central planning have been demolished , or that much of the government is now in the hands of people who still refer to themselves quite unselfconsciously as ‘ the opposition ’ .
10 it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that .
11 It 's just that that just how I I had to be .
12 ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’
13 I d I do n't mean that 's er er a terribly difficult thing but it is just that that does have to happen .
14 The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his team are always ingenious in defending whatever the policy of the moment is ; it is just that that policy is changed so often that it leaves a little bit of a question mark over whether they have any plan or direction at all .
15 Well I have n't , it 's just that that people have said , you know , when the permissions available can we see it as soon as possible that was all , I just wondered if that document was available ,
16 It was when they were in the process of doing just that that Edward Greenwood walked in unannounced .
17 You know and maybe it 's just that that there 're so many people out there with nothing to do and they just it 's just a a boredom situation maybe I do n't know .
18 Said they were going out it 's just that that was ages ago though .
19 ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams .
20 It 's just that most newspaper readers , the serious ones that is , would certainly opt for something a bit thicker , like The Independent . ’
21 It 's just that most of us are not honest enough to admit to the fact .
22 It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over .
23 It 's just that most fish shops do n't do bright boxes and balloons . ’
24 It 's just that most people have got m quite a lot so it 's a limiting factor .
25 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 .
26 It 's just that some are socially acceptable and available within the law , others are most definitely not .
27 It 's just that some people think they look their best by looking terrible .
28 It was just that some days could be rather less fine than others .
29 I was just that some nights I waken up and you know you can actually hear your heart .
30 The point is just that some basic concepts relating to the experience curve may still be valuable if used with intelligence and discretion .
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