Example sentences of "be just that [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | it 's just that it would just that the time , sometimes you 've got to have things on time and some people do n't have . |
4 | ‘ It is n't that he has totally gone away , it 's just that I ca n't see him as I used to . ’ |
5 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
6 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't understand French . |
7 | It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all . |
8 | It 's just that I ca n't help . |
9 | ‘ It 's just that I ca n't stand the slur on my grandmother 's memory . |
10 | It 's just that I ca n't bear to see someone like you , Ruth , made miserable so worthlessly , and until you get some feeling of respect for yourself you 're never going to snap out of it , and you 'll go on being used as a doormat . |
11 | ‘ It 's just … ’ she smiled tremulously at him through damp , spiky eyelashes ‘ … it 's just that I ca n't … |
12 | It 's just that I would n't consider it was right … fair … feeling as I do about … about another man . ’ |
13 | It 's just that I can actually hear it . |
14 | It 's just that I could n't take it . |
15 | It 's just that I could never remember it afterwards , and anyway everyone seemed to pronounce it differently . |
16 | It 's just that you wo n't |
17 | Although the money 's not important , it 's just that you ca n't keep asking a girl that age to come out . |
18 | Now she knew the safety of her room was illusory ; it was just that they could n't be bothered with her . |
19 | It was just that she could n't help seeing beyond those stares , to the envy of the women and the coldly calculating sexual avarice of the men . |