Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sure enough , they soon saw Mait , as he rushed out of the other side of a grotto they were just entering . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But by a kindly error of the doorman 's watch they were just in time . |
| 7 | Robins played crap vs SCUM , so lets hope they are just as crap vs us . |
| 8 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 9 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | They 're all the same size they 're just different colours , so whenever |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility |
| 15 | But when they were at school they were just in and out , and home at 3.30 p.m . |
| 16 | Last year they were just another band ; now pearls of suave SUEDE are steamingly hot pop-fop property . |
| 17 | Half the time they 're just crazy instruments that do n't have a name . |
| 18 | It must be a problem if people sort of leave their children in nurseries all the time cos it 's nice for a short time but for a long long time they 're just not yours are they any more ? |
| 19 | I hate the fact that , during election campaigns , we all have to suck up to the idiots , pay court to them , treat them as if they were intelligent , thoughtful stalwarts of democracy , careful weighers of pros and cons , when in point of fact they 're just idiots . |
| 20 | People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious . |
| 21 | IT IS more than possible that I am missing a point , showing a lack of imagination , remaining in the Middle Ages and have my feet firmly stuck in the mud when I am under the impression they are just on the ground . |