Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] just [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not just to do with surface . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And it 's hard just to get all the way up . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In addition , the party groups often appoint Whips , whose job it is not just to enforce party discipline , but by operating what is referred to in Parliamentary jargon as ‘ the usual channels ’ can assist in the smooth running of the authority , by , for example , effecting agreements on nominations to committees or outside bodies . |
| 7 | That it is n't just to catch up with unproductive people . |
| 8 | ‘ Women suffer from it more than men — especially women who have been brought up to think that it is enough just to look beautiful . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 . |