Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] just [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test .
2 Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy .
3 This was just a continuation of the baseline .
4 er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for .
5 ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me .
6 The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg .
7 This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island .
8 But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France .
9 Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in .
10 This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read .
11 This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story .
12 This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale .
13 The ‘ lights out ’ issue in December 1984 was just the tip of the iceberg .
14 If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size .
15 In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion .
16 and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll
17 That was just a figure of speech , ’ said the doctor .
18 Oh well , that was just a waste of break .
19 That was just the opposite of Roux 's result and was the first clear demonstration of the process known as regulation : the ability of the embryo to develop normally even when some portions are removed or rearranged .
20 That was just the result of fatigue .
21 AND THAT WAS JUST THE START OF A THOROUGH RENOVATION THAT 'S TAKEN 20 YEARS TO COMPLETE .
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