Example sentences of "[adj] [is] just a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know the rest — this is just a tribute to three lovely unselfish children , and it may bring back some lovely memories , as it does to Pop and myself . |
| 2 | ‘ This is just a story about a human being , like in some of the books we read . ’ |
| 3 | And this is just a continuation of that that prejudice against those that appear to be living off the state and not justifying their existence and I think it does n't deserve the time that we 've spent on it tonight . |
| 4 | This is just a sample of the papers trawled from one journal during one month . |
| 5 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 6 | It is easier to describe simple organisms first and move on to complex ones but this is just a convenience of arrangement , and we will follow this procedure here . |
| 7 | Well they 've made it absolutely much more pressing and this is just a drop in the ocean . |
| 8 | And that in fact what we already have in this county is a balance of policies which substantially favour environmental protection and this is just a means of adding another one which is another hurdle for any department to erm to actually er meet . |
| 9 | In context this is just a reply to Pippin 's remark that the song ‘ does not sound altogether encouraging ’ . |
| 10 | This is just a waste of time . |
| 11 | ( Note that the terms ‘ solution ’ and ‘ dissolution ’ are used widely in discussions of karst landforms , but this is just a form of shorthand since , as was discussed in Section 6.2.3.3 , limestone weathering involves complex chemical reactions . ) |
| 12 | This is just a sort of first list , the one thing erm you were going to ask Jimmy ? |
| 13 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 14 | All that is just a function of X whatever number X is X is for . |
| 15 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
| 16 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 17 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's just a trick of the eyesight . |
| 19 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 20 | By nature , it is wet and that 's , that 's just a feature of water . |
| 21 | that 's just a smir of rain . |
| 22 | That 's just a note of what we just did . |
| 23 | and he ends up with Creme Eggs and then proper eggs and that and I thought that 's just a waste of money at his age cos when Easter comes up , four weeks after he 's seventeen . |
| 24 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
| 25 | Well that 's just no that 's I think that 's just a renewal of vows . |
| 26 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |
| 27 | It 's a fairly safe bet that the ASB will be heavily criticised in five years ' time in any case ; that 's just a fact of life that standard-setters in the UK have to accept . |
| 28 | That 's just a taste of the song . |
| 29 | So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . |
| 30 | I hate to listen to guitarists rattle off rubbish about ‘ the only thing that matters is the story of the song ’ because that 's just a bunch of crap ! |