Example sentences of "[noun] they [be] just " in BNC.

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1 There was a few in the lads they were just did n't want to do this picket line .
2 So in other words they were just like any other sibling , just happens to be they were erm conceived at the same time and er developed in the womb together .
3 Whether one defines a conductance or introduces a friction term they are just two different ways of expressing the empirical fact that the electrons ' velocity does not go on increasing indefinitely in response to a driving electric field .
4 Sure enough , they soon saw Mait , as he rushed out of the other side of a grotto they were just entering .
5 The demands of personal intimacy are demands they are just not prepared to meet .
6 So once again , I 'm on the gloom and doom to a certain extent , but it does worry me because you see somewhere down the line , ladies and gentlemen , we shall need this skill , we shall need this pool of skilled people , and at the moment they 're just not there at all !
7 At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter .
8 Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude .
9 Some of the stories they 're just so
10 They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television .
11 Even critics who loved the pace and zest of the new films began to feel that night after night they were just sitting through one long gangster film .
12 Praps they were just getting a little fed up of Wilko selling players for nothing when he decided he did nt want them any more ?
13 But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding .
14 But by a kindly error of the doorman 's watch they were just in time .
15 Robins played crap vs SCUM , so lets hope they are just as crap vs us .
16 On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house .
17 As Mahmood , the secretary of the strike committee , put it in the tenth month of the strike : ‘ When the women first joined Grunwick they were just like ordinary women .
18 When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy .
19 I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy .
20 We we well er er see they were on their rounds and then they 'd be going round by Nedd and and probably Scourie they were just doing their circular .
21 Mm I know , but it 's not that , it 's the games they 're just plain rubbish and cack and like that .
22 ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . )
23 They 're all the same size they 're just different colours , so whenever
24 Consider the facts : there are about 3,000 architects in Scotland ; workloads have declined by as much as 60 per cent ; and some firms report that they are only half the size they were just two years ago .
25 Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were .
26 So they are they 're being harsher on landlords but on the rich peasants they 're just taking back the land instead of
27 But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility
28 But when they were at school they were just in and out , and home at 3.30 p.m .
29 Last year they were just another band ; now pearls of suave SUEDE are steamingly hot pop-fop property .
30 I do n't think though , this might , it 's a very ones they 're just like building society .
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