Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't resist the temptation while I 'm here just to tell you one or two things about the accounting application . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure I 'm there just to concentrate on coaching and I 'm sure that 's the first thing I need to look at ’ , Jenkins also said . |
| 3 | Basically , what it is , they er , want to computerise a collection of some one hundred million words of written and spoken text , that can used by dictionary compilers which are there just to study the English language . |
| 4 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean there 's the sort of psychopathic , non-accidental injury that you 're never gon na be able to do anything about , and it 's best just to take the kids away and and and break the link completely . |
| 7 | But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up . |
| 8 | And it 's hard just to get all the way up . |
| 9 | It 's more just to slow the thing up , when it does slide it 's kind of like ‘ Oh ! ’ and you kinda dig in your knees and everything and it 's a bit of a moment . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Women suffer from it more than men — especially women who have been brought up to think that it is enough just to look beautiful . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was enough just to look at them . |
| 17 | The only thing for me is really just to bring you up-to-date in terms of the V D U project and where we are with that . |