Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] is just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Maastricht Treaty without the Social Chapter is just a charter for business . |
| 2 | A Mob without a proper leader is just a liability . |
| 3 | For some children , this clinginess is just a phase , which will disappear when she gets more used to the rough and tumble of the other children . |
| 4 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 5 | This city is just a collection of villages which happen to share the same map reference . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe this year is just a bit too early for me , but I should be reaching my peak in the two or three years after that — who knows ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone knows that the Liberal Club is just a name for people opposed to Klaus , ’ says a financial expert who shares the minister 's economic ideas . |
| 8 | The following list is just a sample of new courses and schemes , many of which illustrate the way that the University is developing new ideas to meet the needs of people who want further training but who are not in a position to commit themselves to full-time study . |
| 9 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 10 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 11 | ‘ For that kind of penance they will pay £550 and know that the hard work is just a beginning . |
| 12 | Even lower inflation is just a consequence of far higher unemployment . |
| 13 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 14 | Sir Eric is not expecting the sky to fall in over his campus , but in a sense that is the problem — graceful degradation is just a mite too graceful . |
| 15 | If the history of our technological age is just a flicker of time , then multimedia , amidst all the bustle of change , is a word still forming on our lips . |
| 16 | Of course , the intriguing question is whether our abstract schemes for programs and/or documents are true pointers to some powerful universal truth , or whether the sense of elegance and economy in a good approach is just a delusion . |
| 17 | Well Carolyn 's here tomorrow Geoff to show that age is just a state of mind . |
| 18 | Until then hot breakfast is just a bowl of porridge with a banana , followed by some fruit as a morning snack and a filled chunk of French stick and yoghurt for lunch . |
| 19 | Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth . |
| 20 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 21 | The Big Man is just a voice on the phone : he 's left us too long . |
| 22 | So , the fact that who works in the green grocers is just a bit of additional information , it 's not necessary for the the main part of the sentence , you can take it out and it 's not going to take , make any difference to the construction or the meaning of the sentence , it 's a bit of additional information . |
| 23 | Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat |
| 24 | Er the blue book is just a guide for yourselves as cos Neighbourhood Watch members . |
| 25 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 26 | I think it , this is whole scheme is just a case experimenting and trying things with different work |