Example sentences of "just [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just enough to be a real pain . |
| 2 | She went on talking and I half-listened — just enough to be able to make a response when she stopped . |
| 3 | At night the landscape glows a dull red , which emanates from the surface of Venus : the rocks , hotter than a domestic oven , glow just enough to be seen at night . |
| 4 | Listen , I love him , but he 's just not to be trusted . ’ |
| 5 | True , it would suit her very well just now to be darting hither and thither between Hertford and York . |
| 6 | We are not just here to be leaflet and voting fodder for professional politicians , we are here to take a part in our party , and we will defend that right . |
| 7 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 8 | He was just about to be attacked by a horde of anxious faces when he felt himself being gently shaken . |
| 9 | Jilinski , however , seemed oblivious to Samsonov 's ever more perilous situation , and as late as 26 August — when the hapless Samsonov was just about to be engulfed from all sides — he commanded Rennenkampf to employ two corps for the investment of Königsberg and with the rest of his army to press on to the Vistula . |
| 10 | When complete , there will be 37 three- , four- and five-bedroom detached houses , and the second phase of 10 properties is just about to be released . |
| 11 | Mam was just about to be rehoused by the council , and did n't fancy being so far out of town . |
| 12 | The agreement is just about to be reached . |
| 13 | I went to the doctor at seventeen , just about to be married and he put me on Librium to calm me down . |
| 14 | Robert Hardy , the actor , plays William alderman er and it 's the tour is just about to be re-cut er so that Judi Dench can be introduced into it as Lady . |
| 15 | He stopped in front of her and looked down at her from what appeared just then to be a very great height . |
| 16 | But with her view of her caller blocked by the open door and her guest , Leith was in too much of a dilemma just then to be too infuriated by the liberty he had taken . |
| 17 | In the city , for example , there was the thought that it was n't ours , it was just there to be exploited . |