Example sentences of "just that they " in BNC.

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1 In fact , it does n't matter what the thought is , what predicate I ascribe to them , just that they are the object of some kind of thought .
2 It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ .
3 It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues .
4 It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out .
5 It is just that they have both been at it too often recently .
6 And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own .
7 She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them .
8 It 's not that the jokes are not funny , but just that they are about as fresh as a tin of those pineapple chunks .
9 Just that they are worthy of debate is , itself , an unusual compliment .
10 Those making the decisions have become in a precise sense semi-literate : they can read and write , it is just that they seldom do .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 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 .
13 This does not mean that plants can read our minds , just that they are sensitive to mood and general mental-emotional vibration .
14 It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical .
15 It 's just that they 'll make such a fuss .
16 I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other .
17 ‘ And also , when you meet them , they 're exactly the same people — it 's just that they 've got different accents .
18 The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people .
19 It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless .
20 It is just that they have no other choice .
21 It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited .
22 It 's just that they say if you 're doing physics sometimes you know this might help you
23 It 's just that they 've probably got so tired of putting petrol in each year
24 Now she knew the safety of her room was illusory ; it was just that they could n't be bothered with her .
25 If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked .
26 Just that they could n't help . ’
27 After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap .
28 None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience .
29 It 's just that they should call that part of their work journalism .
30 It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ?
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