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 | This is just an excuse for him to walk |
| 14 | Well , of course , Darwin really had no answer to that and today we today we do because nowadays we know how evolution works , and erm what we now know that Darwin did not know , is that the genetic code is based , this is just an illustration from a standard book , you can find this in more or less any , any book . |
| 15 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 16 | He did a load of different experiments , this is just an example of one of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 18 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 19 | All that is just a function of X whatever number X is X is for . |
| 20 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
| 21 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 22 | 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 . |