Example sentences of "[is] just [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , ‘ It is just that we are in sympathy , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ It is just that we are wary of strangers in the city these days , with so many of the surrounding folk seeking safety behind the walls , and the … the Sellswords flocking to Sergius 's banner whether the Duke condones it or no . |
| 3 | The first problem here is that the brevity of Scaevola 's response ( even by his standards three words is modest ) leaves it unclear whether he means that the debtors are not freed from any liability , or whether it is just that they are not freed from liabilities contracted after the first will was made . |
| 4 | Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals . |
| 5 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 6 | It is just that there are so many of them concerned with skin colour , each one having such a small effect , that they seem to blend . |
| 7 | At the moment it is just that she is missing . ’ |
| 8 | You may believe that it is just because I am an extremely popular person . |
| 9 | I think it is just because his is too mild and wo n't make an effort to assert himself . |
| 10 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 11 | Everything is just as it was left . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 14 | In controversial matters such as care involved in industrial relations there is room for difference of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 15 | In controversial matters such as are involved in industrial relations there is room for differences of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 16 | It 's just whether it 's worth having the hire for that one doing forty foot . |
| 17 | It 's just that everything 's so different from how I imagined it . |
| 18 | It 's not that they 're his nappies and he wets them — it 's nothing to do with that — it 's just that they 're endless . |
| 19 | It 's not that the expressions are n't spontaneous or genuine , Bernice said to herself , it 's just that they 're edited . |
| 20 | It is n't that we have n't any standards left in my time ; it 's just that they 're different , do n't you see that ? |
| 21 | Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright . |
| 22 | They 're nice chocolates it 's just that they 're all soft centres and Tony only likes nutty and hard ones . |
| 23 | After all , some dot matrix printers can actually produce a greater number of dots per inch than a page printer , it 's just that they are bigger dots and tend to overlap . |
| 24 | It 's just that they were not inclined to help him out . |
| 25 | It 's just that we 're going to make it into a theatre . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that we 're not a noise band , ’ adds Mike , ‘ we do n't jump around the place but we 're totally comfortable with going out on a stage . ’ |
| 27 | I had a friend — well , I still do , it 's just that we 're temporarily out of touch — called Alison . |
| 28 | I was just gon na say Dick , can you , I 'll , I 'll give you a ring back it 's just that we 're in the middle of eating |
| 29 | ‘ It 's just that we are having a party — after the competition , ’ she added hastily . |
| 30 | Well we 're not saying that we would n't have turned up it 's just that we were unable to turn up . |