Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 2 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 3 | Of course there were a lot of questions , but right now the answers did n't matter ; it was enough just to enjoy the questions , and know that the world was full of astonishing things , and that he was n't a frog . |
| 4 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 5 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 6 | It was enough just to look at them . |
| 7 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 8 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 9 | Britain 's strategy was not just to block the Six , but to have something in place should they succeed in getting their common market off the ground . |
| 10 | The pool system was not just to protect journalists and share the work out fairly , but also to control and censor the media . |
| 11 | So , third , the purpose of the Council was not just to restate and defend past doctrines — for that a Council was not necessary — but to ‘ make a leap forward in doctrinal insight and the education of consciences in ever greater fidelity to authentic teaching . |
| 12 | When Bilqis , Queen of Sheba , travelled from her domain in southern Arabia to visit King Solomon , it was not just to pay a social call . |
| 13 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 14 | Her plan was really just to find the place , then go away and have tea somewhere while she waited for him . |
| 15 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 16 | It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion . |