Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] 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 . |