Example sentences of "just [conj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might take an unexpected turning just because it feels right , and discover a lovely place to eat . |
| 2 | The film itself should not be written off just because it uses unsophisticated material . |
| 3 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
| 4 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 5 | Information Technology ( IT ) is a strategic resource not just because it provides sophisticated operational systems and day-to-day information for management control but also because associated Information Systems ( IS ) provide top level market information . |
| 6 | And just because it looks easy to use a mouse and icons to develop new database applications , it does n't mean that you can forget all about the coding side . |
| 7 | It is dangerous , however , to argue that there is no reason for the large antlers just because it seems unnecessary to give a reason . |
| 8 | Former employees at an engineering firm have been told their company borrowed ( 200,000 ) two hundred thousand pounds from their pension scheme just before it went bust . |
| 9 | Just as it requires careful planning to ensure the correct orientation of a pedagogical grammar , so the progression of the lessons too must be carefully planned . |
| 10 | I 'd allowed the door to swing to behind me and just as it clicked shut , someone knocked . |
| 11 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 12 | It seemed impossible to reconcile the ideal of the simple monastic life with a great religious order , just as it seemed impossible for the papacy to exercise leadership without becoming an autocratic bureaucracy . |
| 13 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 14 | Flamers sprayed at the fracas ; and at last rebels could be distinguished from loyalists , just as it became obvious that the new arrivals on the scene — pink salamanders — were also loyalists . |
| 15 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 16 | Just as it seems strange and unnecessary that the law should have to choose between duress as a complete defence to murder , and duress as no defence at all , so it seems strange and unnecessary that a killing which narrowly fails to come within the requirements of self-defence or other justifiable force should then be classified as murder . |
| 17 | ‘ Just as it invaded this mutton ? ’ |
| 18 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |