Example sentences of "just to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 2 | But it was great just to be asked to come out here . |
| 3 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 4 | Suddenly they were wearing expensive clothes on and off stage , taking cabs everywhere , men were showering them with gifts in an attempt just to be seen with them . |
| 5 | Health Authority figures show some outpatients who 've been referred by their GP to an orthapedic consultant there , may have to wait more than 2 years just to be seen . |
| 6 | And they went over just to be fitted with the |
| 7 | I thought I was just to be shut in the cellar , as usual , the light turned off , as usual , the better to think out my wickedness , the better to pray for forgiveness . |
| 8 | Someone who put 20p into the guitar case also left his Evening Standard , possibly as part-payment or just to be rid of it . |
| 9 | After the past week at Loch Lomond , with Jake forever finding fault with her , it was like a dose of summer sunshine just to be accepted for what she was . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 11 | If we acted unilaterally , we should end up putting out of business our own egg producers just to be flooded with eggs produced under the very system that we had banned . |
| 12 | Just to be dubbed a ‘ best buy ’ in a range of rival tumble driers , answering machines or camcorders can lead to a rush to the store by discerning customers . |
| 13 | As Box puts it , a person accused of stabbing someone is not likely just to be charged with ‘ carrying an offensive weapon ’ . |
| 14 | Until there are as many and varied women in bands as there are men , we will always have to shout a bit louder just to be heard . ’ |
| 15 | You ca n't but peek at them just to be titillated , not really believing what they are saying , since they are concocted by charlatans . |
| 16 | But geology , is not done just to be applied . |
| 17 | We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it . |
| 18 | Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated . |
| 19 | They supply a constant load , therefore , so the user , the electricity user , has to be persuaded to even out his use of electricity , so night storage heaters are sold to people , just to be switched on at night , in order to provide a smoothing of the demand load . |
| 20 | I wanted to stay just to be resent physically and symbolically without any involvement in politics . |
| 21 | Perhaps the punishment of the wrong-doers was just to be finished , kaput , over ? |
| 22 | If people have very little choice in matters of housing then the details of planning and the execution of policy become very important , and are not just to be left to the ‘ experts ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 24 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 25 | ‘ Just to be told I 've won a million was one of the greatest thrills of my life . |