Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] be just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 2 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 3 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 7 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 8 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 9 | And that 's just a shelf , so when you 've got the stuff coming out . |
| 10 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 11 | Getting it out and that was just an armchair do n't know what they 'd do if they had to move the settee , but erm , that 's the difference in |
| 12 | If that was just a warning I did n't want to be around when they got really nasty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but |
| 15 | And this is just a fact : indeed an introspectible fact , which we can therefore all observe directly for ourselves . |
| 16 | Well they 've made it absolutely much more pressing and this is just a drop in the ocean . |
| 17 | ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |
| 20 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 21 | That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady . |
| 22 | I was high on LSD probably , but that 's just a guess . ’ |
| 23 | It also sounds a bit like the late Joan Crawford — but that 's just a guess ! |
| 24 | ‘ There 's Cockfosters , sir , but that 's just a cage , too , and the school opposite Wandsworth Prison . |
| 25 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 26 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 27 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 28 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 29 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 30 | But that was just a full-dress rehearsal . |