Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] just " in BNC.
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1 | Either the top or the bottom step would need to be just one sleeper high , to give a total rise of 2ft 6in ( 75cm ) . |
2 | I do n't really need to be Just so long |
3 | Cultural attributes ( English language skills , style of life , adoption of US or European rather than local ‘ attitudes and values ’ ) appear to be just as important as more formal job skills in the promotion of women as well as men in the TNCs in developing countries . |
4 | They appear to be just what would be required to exploit the " chirp radar " technique . |
5 | ( In the year 2000 the number of homes with either cable or satellite is expected to be just over 10 million . ) |
6 | This financial year , they are expected to be just over £1 billion — about one half of 1 per cent . |
7 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
8 | The intonation on your guitar has got to be perfect , because you 're fretting strings behind the glass and that has to be just right . |
9 | Bad habits on the old presses could be tolerated , but with the new ones ‘ the whole process has to be just right ’ . |
10 | ‘ It has to be just a little longer , straighter and perhaps more masculine . ’ |
11 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
12 | ‘ Anyone who 's prepared to use a child as a pawn just to score points in some personal vendetta has to be just about the lowest form of life . |
13 | It has to be just about the most melancholy job in Government , cataloguing the Treasury 's human detritus . |
14 | Everything has to be just so for me to be able to learn . |
15 | On the training ground I want to be just another player . ’ |
16 | The advantage of a low Christology would seem to be that Jesus is considered to be just another human , one among us , our brother . |
17 | Yeah it wants to be just enough inside here that it frightens them . |
18 | Your Watson , then , needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being . |
19 | So the power needs to be just slightly slightly raised okay . |
20 | A little owl , pretending to be just another stone on a heap of stones ; we could so easily have missed him if he had n't swivelled his head to peer in our direction at just the right moment . |
21 | THOUGH ageless ( that is to say he never lets on ) Wearside League president Charlie Thomas is reckoned to be just 16 years junior to the league itself . |
22 | Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit . |
23 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
24 | ‘ It would appear to be just part of the cost of doing business . ’ |
25 | The work did not appear to be just one of those relatively soul destroying , ‘ anything to keep them occupied ’ jobs that many prison inmates are forced to undertake . |
26 | With Walsh then skimming the bar with a spectacular overhead shot , it seemed to be just a matter of time before Tottenham would score . |
27 | And the days passed and the nights passed and it seemed to be just waiting for death . |
28 | with black fillings , and long ratty hair that always seemed to be just coming out of a perm . |
29 | The party seemed to be just a party — quite an entertaining one , but nothing world-shaking . |
30 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |