Example sentences of "be just that " in BNC.
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1 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
2 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
3 | Federal budget requests are just that : requests . |
4 | That seems unusual , but it may be just that the home warren attracted more elil than other places . |
5 | ‘ It might be just that he 's one of their flock . ’ |
6 | Strachan : Showed some lovely touches but seemed to be just that bit too slow . |
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 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
13 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
14 | It is just that they have both been at it too often recently . |
15 | It is described as a comic love story for clumsy people , and it is just that : endearing , touching , and very , very funny . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It is just that their claim to power is completely out-of-date . |
18 | It is just that I do n't know what the man will do . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do . |
23 | ‘ 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 . |
24 | It is just that going to the cinema has become inexorably linked with the purchase and consumption of such foods . |
25 | Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It is just that I believe they are probably more rare than is claimed . |
30 | It is just that we Russians are living in unbearably horrible conditions . |