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

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1 ‘ You 're just peeved that it 's not about your subject , that 's all .
2 It 's just strange that Laidlaw was with Delta and the murdered man , Barak , was an informer for Delta here in Beirut .
3 Not with a thing like a outputs of aspirin , I mean everyone in Boots knows what the outputs of aspirin are just strange that they are in fact three times what we 'd thought they were and we 've course there 's Crooks , course there 's this , course there 's that tremendous discernment , tremendous understanding but if you have n't got that tremendous understanding , you 've just joined the company , you think you know something and you do n't because not what they think they are
4 But it 's just strange that Steven 's called their half brother and they 're called brothers .
5 I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner .
6 I 'm just sorry that it had to be Oldham . ’
7 Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf .
8 ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side .
9 I 'm just sorry that my absurd … .
10 I 'm just sorry that a few more people
11 It was just possible that Floss had got shut in one of them .
12 It is just possible that you are one of those rare people who has never seriously tried to diet .
13 It is just possible that a diet too low in certain foods will produce iron and calcium deficiency .
14 Rugby will not get any change out of Leicester , but it is just possible that Nottingham are now so fired up that they might escape with the point they need at Orrell .
15 But it was just possible that Ash 's own Vico had marginalia missed even by the indefatigable Cropper .
16 Is n't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long ?
17 It is just possible that the tide is now turning for social works with the opportunity for specialisation and new roles in the Community Care service .
18 It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own .
19 Of course it 's just possible that she has poor eyesight — a woman like that would be too vain to wear spectacles .
20 It seems just possible that this reversal of hand causes sufficient unwinding of the super helix into which the DNA is wound to prevent the gene being transcribed .
21 It is just possible that this is a master stroke on the part of the CEGB : focus attention on a topic that really has little to do with the inspector .
22 ( It 's just possible that the youngsters were expressing a scientific talent rather than a dislike of the press , for their is no denying that McGinty 's ample form would produce an immediate uplift in the balloon . )
23 It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality .
24 It is just possible that , given the choice , they might prefer the risk of an occasional torn ear or scratched nose to the certainty of a totally sexless adult life .
25 Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station .
26 It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely .
27 It seemed just possible that we might meet in Menton , where she went as judge for the Katherine Mansfield Prize — an inappropriate meeting-place , for we both greatly disliked ‘ K.M. ’ She was to inspire the admirable story ‘ Sisters ’ in Elizabeth 's next collection — the story of a cosy , bourgeoise , widowed ex-mayoress in a provincial town being embarrassed by questions about her famous , disreputable sister .
28 Or was it just possible that right to the end he had believed that she would find out , and come to him ?
29 And if he were mistaken , it was just possible that the lass was with child .
30 The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold .
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