Example sentences of "[is] just a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unless you know how to use it , ’ she sighed , ‘ a Scrabble game is just a boxful of junk . ’ |
| 2 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 3 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 4 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 5 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 6 | Until then hot breakfast is just a bowl of porridge with a banana , followed by some fruit as a morning snack and a filled chunk of French stick and yoghurt for lunch . |
| 7 | Is just a scrag of neck . |
| 8 | It is just a case of time will heal . |
| 9 | It is just a case of time will heal . |
| 10 | If the history of our technological age is just a flicker of time , then multimedia , amidst all the bustle of change , is a word still forming on our lips . |
| 11 | For some this they hope is the first step on the road to a more stable musicl career to others it is just a bit of fun . |
| 12 | Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat |
| 13 | Well Carolyn 's here tomorrow Geoff to show that age is just a state of mind . |
| 14 | There is just a touch of yellow along the very top of the dorsal fin . |
| 15 | The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo . |
| 16 | socialists , which is just a load of rubbish if you ask |
| 17 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( 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 . ) |
| 20 | Of course er crack is just a form of cocaine , the worst form of cocaine . |
| 21 | Now the Maastricht Treaty without the Social Chapter is just a charter for business . |
| 22 | As time passes , it becomes harder for workers to shift , but it is just a matter of absorption and keeping up to date , ’ he says . |
| 23 | But realism itself is just a matter of convention ; for some people it is the defamiliarized codes which seem realistic , whereas for others it is the traditional devices which convey a sense of reality , and no one device is inherently more realistic than another . |
| 24 | Detective Inspector Andy Steel , of Thames Valley Police , said : ‘ It is just a matter of time before we find him . ’ |
| 25 | But Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ It is just a matter of time before Darren explodes — then watch him go . ’ |
| 26 | The difference between them is just a matter of time . |
| 27 | In any case she thinks it is just a matter of time before more women start coming through to senior levels , both because the company is taking on more female graduates and because they are a pretty self-confident lot anyway . |
| 28 | There is nothing ‘ immoral ’ or ‘ moral ’ about this ; it is just a matter of fact . |
| 29 | There is , in fact , an organisation in France that runs world championships for the speedsail , where tactics are unimportant and it is just a matter of courage as speeds of up to 50mph . |
| 30 | Thus discussion lessons can often give the impression that everything is just a matter of opinion — there need be no rigour , for " it 's all subjective anyway " . |