Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 2 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 3 | A guidebook on the mantlepiece adds that until the plague did for Wensley , Leyburn was just a speck on the map anyway . |
| 4 | ‘ I think my parents were just the sort of people who did not like staying in one place for very long . |
| 5 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
| 6 | Everyone thought that Zagrat were just a bunch of old beardies from the headster time . ’ |
| 7 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 8 | Charles hoped that George 's assumption was right , that Michael Banks 's difficulty in retaining the lines was just the product of laziness . |
| 9 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 11 | By the seventeenth century Stamford was just a shadow of its former self . |
| 12 | The change from thirty one percent to twenty seven percent was just a calculation by using all the information not taking specific points on the network . |
| 13 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 14 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 15 | And Lancaster was just the sort of geezer to know his solicitor 's telephone number off by heart . |
| 16 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 17 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 18 | The ivory damask curtains were drawn and Faye 's body was just a hump in the darkness . |
| 19 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 20 | TO most of the Yorkshire team , Arthur ‘ Rocker ’ Robinson was just a face in the crowd at the thrilling Sunday League clash with Somerset at Middlesbrough last weekend . |
| 21 | There is still a strong political pressure towards the Gradgrind model of curriculum design , as though education were just a game of ‘ Trivial Pursuit ’ . |
| 22 | Guy Sterne was just the kind of man to treat women as objects for sexual gratification , and as obliging servants to keep house and serve his meals … |
| 23 | The difference between two dead men and two slightly bent aeroplanes was just a fraction of a second . |
| 24 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 25 | Well I started when my children were quite young , and taught them that er advertisements on television were just an invitation to be ripped off . |
| 26 | ‘ Lucasta was just the sort of woman he used to like . |
| 27 | Chewing the fat last week , Santa Cruz Operation Inc observed that ‘ the Advanced Computing Environment was just a figment of the ACE consortium 's imagination . ’ |
| 28 | Separating the province from the rest of the island was just a way of sidestepping the Protestant minority 's implacable hostility to a British withdrawal . |
| 29 | ‘ If we slip up and drop into mid-table , people will say that our start to the season was just a flash in the pan . |
| 30 | Young men still came up to the colleges , but they reminded Lewis of his own position in 1917 , when his glimpse of Oxford life was just a prelude to the horrors of battle . |