Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 3 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 4 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 5 | But it is a ready-made blueprint for inequality just waiting to be copied by other reactionary governments . |
| 6 | Well it 's , the shirt just seems to be too fine for it . |
| 7 | ‘ This lady just wants to be in touch , ’ says Lorraine . |
| 8 | You see sometimes Boy , like all of us , sometimes Boy just wanted to be taken care of without having done anything to deserve it . |
| 9 | That pretty girl just had to be Gaynor Summer 's sister , and , sure enough , that was where she went . |
| 10 | ‘ A sport just has to be a bit flexible . ’ |
| 11 | I 've got a ceiling just waiting to be painted . ’ |
| 12 | Water itself is , of course , a combined source of oxygen just waiting to be liberated via the breakdown of water vapour through photosynthesis . |
| 13 | Being born and bred in Ludlow , my favourite team just has to be … |
| 14 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 15 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 16 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 17 | That game just happens to be the Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Avoca . |
| 18 | There 's a cool half million pounds in the kitty just waiting to be snapped up … a NEW 50,000 Generation Name Game , the latest thing in family fun … the chance to scoop a fortune on Vernons Pools and , of course , diamonds , diamonds , diamonds . |
| 19 | You remind me of a beautiful ripe peach just waiting to be picked but when you 're opened up — surprise , surprise ! |
| 20 | Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it . |
| 21 | This call just had to be an act of purest derision , a flaunting of how well this enemy had foretold Jaq 's actions — or even was psychically alert to Jaq 's whereabouts . |
| 22 | Knowing our love just has to be . |
| 23 | Though we shall have much more to say on the issues that allegedly divide quantitative and qualitative methods in later chapters , the kind of choice just alluded to is neither urgent nor necessary . |
| 24 | An almost totally unspoilt island just off the coast of southern Ibiza whose lazy sun-drenched calm just waits to be savoured . |
| 25 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 26 | The entire village is a children 's paradise , a stimulating world just waiting to be discovered . |
| 27 | But the star of the show just had to be Boy George , who was so inspired , he bought the outfit he modelled . |
| 28 | From the barren Sahara in the south to the fertile wine-producing plains of the north , Tunisia is a land of variety and surprise just waiting to be experienced . |
| 29 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 30 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |