Example sentences of "[adj] is just the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I this is just the voice of reason . |
| 2 | She said she was ‘ not prepared to go to jail for that ungrateful woman ’ and told ANC intelligence officers : ‘ This is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 3 | Litter disfigures the countryside and contributes to pollution , but this is just the tip of the environmental iceberg . |
| 4 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 5 | And this is just the tip of the iceberg — the accident iceberg , that is . |
| 6 | At a total cost to local Charge payers of around twenty thousand , some people may think such civic junketing has been terribly excessive but the truth is , Lord Mayor , that this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 7 | This is just the kind of system that encourages crime . |
| 8 | ‘ This is just the kind of thing you waste months reconstructing under laboratory conditions — the difference in reaction between when you think you 're morally right , and when you think you 're factually right . |
| 9 | Not only have you achieved a real goal , well , almost , but from now on there will be no more excuses , no more ‘ false ceilings ’ for projects and ambitions — this is just the beginning of a very new and different life for you . |
| 10 | ‘ This is just the scream of the Luddites in a changing world . |
| 11 | Whether or not you accept Idso 's claims , surely this is just the place for a critical appraisal of them ? |
| 12 | Because I mean this is just the start of the trust I mean , nothing 'll change next year . |
| 13 | ( This is just the formula for capital growth when compound interest is applied . ) |
| 14 | and this is just the relative of the averages of prices weighted by base quantities , i.e. equivalent to a weighted version of method 2 . |
| 15 | This is just the icing on the cake . |
| 16 | But , as Peter immediately tells his father , this is just the sort of bon mot to expect from an idler who is being kept in the lap of luxury . |
| 17 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 18 | This is just the sort of thing that we were all afraid of . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 20 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 21 | Mr Chairman , it 's just , just the sort of reason why we did n't su did n't support spending eight thousand pounds on , on some low pay unit , this is just the sort of thing that we feel that , that Committee 's money should be spent on . |
| 22 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 23 | Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight , a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene . |
| 24 | But that is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 25 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 26 | In order to preserve modularity , this power could not , of course , extend to repairing the modules themselves , for that is just the sort of tinkering that a principle of modularity would rule out . |
| 27 | This last is just the principle of closure PC j mentioned above in the discussion of scepticism ( 1.2 ) . |