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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And that 's just a shelf , so when you 've got the stuff coming out . |
| 7 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
| 8 | If that was just a warning I did n't want to be around when they got really nasty . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but |
| 11 | And this is just a fact : indeed an introspectible fact , which we can therefore all observe directly for ourselves . |
| 12 | Well they 've made it absolutely much more pressing and this is just a drop in the ocean . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |
| 15 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 16 | That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady . |
| 17 | I was high on LSD probably , but that 's just a guess . ’ |
| 18 | It also sounds a bit like the late Joan Crawford — but that 's just a guess ! |
| 19 | ‘ There 's Cockfosters , sir , but that 's just a cage , too , and the school opposite Wandsworth Prison . |
| 20 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But that was just a full-dress rehearsal . |
| 26 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 27 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 28 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |