Example sentences of "[be] just [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When women complain about men calling them by endearment terms , it is often thought rather silly — the men are just trying to be friendly , after all , they do not intend any sexist slur . |
| 2 | The Cadbury report is a masterpiece of brevity , but its full scope and implications are just beginning to be realised . |
| 3 | The complexities of later family life are just beginning to be recognised with studies of inter-generational caring relationships ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ; Abrams and Marsden , 1987 ; Ungerson , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Although the gross changes in the brain that accompany and probably cause it can be studied after the death of the patient , the details of the disease process are just beginning to be worked out in animals by studying the microscopic structure of the brain regions that are principally involved together with their biochemistry and their neurotransmitters . |
| 5 | It means that they are just going to be even poorer than they are now . |
| 6 | Metcalfe and Richards point out that the strategic management literature has wrestled for the last 20 years with the problems of managing for results in unstable conditions , yet the lessons which emerge are just starting to be taken on board in the public sector . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're just trying to be clever , and that 's not too clever in itself , you know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ John , you 're just trying to be shocking , ’ said Jannie . |
| 9 | Oh they 're just beginning to be I always feel by the time they 're eight weeks |
| 10 | they 're just beginning to be here really . |
| 11 | They 're just yearning to be home . ’ |
| 12 | I think they 're just going to be planted there . |
| 13 | We 're just going to be living in fear all the time . ’ ’ |
| 14 | Well you 're just have to be patient wo n't you ? |
| 15 | I 'm just pretending to be . |
| 16 | If I 'm going to a meeting where I know I 'm going to be the only woman I put my war paint on , if I 'm just going to be in the office all day I slob around in a skirt and a jumper with very little make up . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 'm just going to be comfortable , ’ said Betty . |
| 18 | This morning we slipped into Mansfield for coffee and a haircut ; and now I 'm just waiting to be relieved , and rush to the letter rack . |
| 19 | People who made money demanded respect ; people who had none were just trash to be trampled underfoot , no matter what other gifts they had . |
| 20 | The conditions for the crossing were not much worse than for the criminals who were just beginning to be shipped across from England in the 1670s , and the death rates were not much higher . |
| 21 | It is thought to be unlikely that the action will be settled out of court , and prospects of a rapprochement between the OSF and Sun — that were just beginning to be talked about ( UX No 379 , 380 ) — now appear remote . |
| 22 | The flowers bloomed happily in the soft sunshine , complemented by the gently swaying leaves of the trees , which were just beginning to be touched by the colours of autumn . |
| 23 | Although the stark trees were just beginning to be in leaf , and familiarity had lessened the menacing air of the place , Theda still found herself uncomfortable within it . |
| 24 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 25 | The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered . |
| 26 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 27 | I 'll drop in on the Colonel , and tell him his pretty young secretary is just dying to be bummed ! ’ |
| 28 | He 's just pretending to be an aw-shucks-gee-look-what-happened-to-me-when-I-wasn't-trying kind of guy . |
| 29 | See , when I go out , I 'm looking out for me and my mate , I do n't want some researcher in the back who 's just going to be a liability … |
| 30 | It 's just going to be a long , slow process . |