Example sentences of "be just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 2 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 3 | National brewing giants such as Allied or Whitbread , though , are not the only villains ; small independent firms can be just as insensitive in their treatment of their tied houses . |
| 4 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 5 | Large bulbs should be only half-buried ; with smaller ones , the tips should be just below the compost surface . |
| 6 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 7 | However , the method of checking should be just the same in order to establish the right habit . |
| 8 | He wanted an open relationship after a while which meant him bringing bits of trade back and then saying could n't we be just sisters ? |
| 9 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 10 | But there never could be such an observer — at least not if his thought-processes were to be analysed in the same way as ours — because his thoughts about the relations of the particulars would themselves be just a succession of particulars whose relations , which give them meaning , were not directly accessible to him . |
| 11 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 12 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 13 | Riva 's move into the UK could well be just the vanguard of a friendly invasion of quality draught continental beers which may soon be competing on the bars of UK pubs with our own traditional ales . |
| 14 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 15 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 16 | It could be just one of these occasions when your home really is being ransacked . |
| 17 | Remember , too much could be just as harmful as too little . |
| 18 | Shorn of these surroundings the furnishings would be just another museum collection . |
| 19 | A BEECH hedge , we thought , would be just the job . |
| 20 | But the undertone was exceedingly fragile , with many traders prepared to bank on the FT-SE falling below 2,200 points in the next few weeks unless the 15 per cent rates do turn out to be just a short-lived shock . |
| 21 | Although collective property auctions take place regularly in London ( often primarily for investors rather than house-hunters ) , in country areas the more typical auction will be just for one house , and as likely as not will take place in a nearby pub or village hall . |
| 22 | But , for Them , an in-fill town house will be just fine . |
| 23 | According to the latest traffic forecasts in the consortium 's interim report projected revenue in 1993 , the year the tunnel opens , will be just under £580m — the same figure as forecast last year . |
| 24 | There was nothing in my background to suggest I would n't be just another East End kid . ’ |
| 25 | You can be just as dead in this orchard as in any other around the village . |
| 26 | I have a feeling we must be just a few miles from the River Seine . |
| 27 | On those rare days when the weather has run out of rain and the sun has driven away the clouds , the wrong packed lunch can be just as disastrous . |
| 28 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
| 29 | However , the association between homosexuality and femininity is not necessarily insulting to either ; on the contrary , as Kaja Silverman shows , there are ways in which it might be just the reverse , especially when we contest the stereotypes of both . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd do that all right but look at what he 's getting mixed up ‘ It may be just talk , ’ she ventured edgily . |