Example sentences of "just [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , in fact , an approach to managing health services and the range of views is largely reflecting just where individuals are within an organisation , the key tasks that concern them and their own approach to implementation . |
| 2 | Finally , it is not just that women are invisible , but that gender itself is . |
| 3 | It is not just that things could be other than they are — it is that they must be . |
| 4 | It was just that things were getting worse , not better as time passed . |
| 5 | It 's a big problem , it 's just that fluctuations you do , if you are aware you 've got some . |
| 6 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 7 | It was not just that degenerates were thought to be intelligent and gifted ; their intelligence manifested one of the most disturbing paradoxes of the perverse : a vitiating regression to the primitive from within an advanced cultural sophistication . |
| 8 | It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair . |
| 9 | The obvious two are Kevin Keegan — he 'd be crap … he 's just a jumped up little Geordie who still has n't shown he can produce a really imaginative team ; and Glen Hoddle — now , hed be my choice … why ? because he 's young , has the respect of the players , would introduce the concept of playing football into the national team ( after all , if you look at the individual skill level of English players it 's as good as just about anywhere in the world … it 's just that managers have refused to let them play ) . |
| 10 | Edward 's treatment of his youngest sons was markedly lacking in generosity , and noted by contemporaries : in a political sermon delivered during the crisis of 1376 Thomas Brinton Bishop of Rochester argued that the king should place his sons above the servants , for it was not right and just that servants should become lords and lords beggars . |
| 11 | It is just that gentlemen are Well , it does not do , you see , to be too much apart . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is not just that politicians speak with forked tongues . |
| 14 | I 'm not suggesting that erm , women magistrates would necessarily be any more just than men magistrates . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I am talking for us all when I say that we will gladly work for nothing , just until matters improve , we have all been so happy here at Summer Lodge and each and every one of us would like to stay with you wherever you go . ’ |
| 16 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 17 | just because researchers have strong feelings about what they are investigating , it does not automatically follow that their findings will be slanted in favour of their own beliefs and values . |
| 18 | Also , farmers are going to be , because most of the assets on a farm are fixed assets , right , farmers are going to be very reluctant , alright , to cease production just because prices are low for a couple of years . |
| 19 | It is just because paradigms have such a persuasive influence on the science practised within them that the replacement of one by another must be a revolutionary one . |
| 20 | But just because adults have the right to choose , it does not follow that they have in fact exercised that right . |
| 21 | The Prime Minister 's speech was pitiful , not just because policies had collapsed but because he 'd spent so little time preparing it , so busy was he trying to help his chum . |
| 22 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 23 | The west of Ireland still enjoys rich ‘ mossy ’ and lichen-covered woods ( and even a lichen-eating and spotted Kerry slug ) , not just because areas such as Killarney have a moist climate but because they have so far escaped most of Europe 's pollution . |
| 24 | Thirdly , just because preferences are subjective , it does not follow that there will not be a degree of consensus about them . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose it 's just because things are a bit dire on that front at present . |
| 26 | It is very important not to simply write it off completely as ‘ a bad day ’ just because things have gone wrong . |
| 27 | But it is just because participants in conversation may be expected to observe the sub-maxim " be orderly " that we have that expectation . |
| 28 | The illegality of shareware use should n't be played down , just because authors do n't have the same clout as the commercial software giants . |
| 29 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 30 | When asked if he thought a ‘ level playing field ’ would ever be achieved Heseltine said that he thought change would take place , but not just because politicians wish it . |