Example sentences of "it just [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 2 | You go for these people and ask for a board and this sort of thing it 's just , it just gets to be demeaning , the practice manager should have , should have |
| 3 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 4 | It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws . |
| 5 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 6 | Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting . |
| 7 | As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 8 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 9 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 10 | It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't . |
| 11 | This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale . |
| 12 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 13 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
| 14 | Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar . |
| 15 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
| 16 | When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach . |
| 17 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
| 18 | j it just happens to be one that I know about . |
| 19 | In this case it just happens to be true . ’ |
| 20 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
| 21 | But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors . |
| 22 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 23 | It just seems to be a conversation we 've had before . |
| 24 | It just seems to be a sort of club for the clergy . ’ |
| 25 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 26 | Erm science at the moment we 've just covered erm things like angular momentum erm it just tends to be stuff like that we 've done simple harmonic motion er |
| 27 | It just appears to be just a fraction out of focus maybe , I do n't know . |
| 28 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 29 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 30 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |