Example sentences of "[am/are] 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 . |