Example sentences of "it [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , if it axed Neil Kinnock , junked Clause 4 , cut the trade union links and purged the remaining socialists , might it have a chance — or would it be just the old SDP ? |
| 2 | Would n't it be just wonderful to own a gracious old house in the heart of Ireland ? |
| 3 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 4 | Think carefully before you decide — will it be just for you , or will other members of your family want to use the computer ? |
| 5 | Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’ |
| 6 | And would it be just kept for funerals especially . |
| 7 | What , will it be just for a short period cos it was n't nine o clock ? |
| 8 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 9 | ‘ An ’ it were just the same then . |
| 10 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 11 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 12 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 13 | It were just that quality of life . |
| 14 | Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light . |
| 15 | Well it were just like I like I the unions were n't as , as er financially well off as they were er at the present day . |
| 16 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 17 | ‘ Unless it were just one kidney poisoned , ’ offered Auguste doubtfully . |
| 18 | ‘ If only it were just a story . ’ |
| 19 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 20 | The Direktor had suggested that it was not necessary for Willi to go , that in fact it would be much better if it were just him , Busacher , and no-one else . |
| 21 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 22 | It were just you know oh it 's a nice morning when I 'm hanging the washing out as though everything was wonderful you know |
| 23 | And i , it were just to show his authority , you know . |
| 24 | It were just a labouring job . |
| 25 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 26 | and er , it were just ninety five mile and back here |
| 27 | cos it it were just as bad after |
| 28 | Yeah supposed to have been bad , it were just er a con so he did n't have to go to college . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | it were just like rain dripping ! |