Example sentences of "[noun sg] is just a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone knows that the Liberal Club is just a name for people opposed to Klaus , ’ says a financial expert who shares the minister 's economic ideas . |
| 3 | Now the Maastricht Treaty without the Social Chapter is just a charter for business . |
| 4 | He says the COSE process is just a way of breaking ‘ Unified Unix ’ down into attainable goals . |
| 5 | He says the COSE process is just a way of breaking ‘ Unified Unix ’ down into attainable goals . |
| 6 | Punishment is just a word after all : nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip-service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 7 | Once you have understood how the machine creates slip , tuck and knit stitches , the rest is just a progression of these , involving very little more than using the electronic pattern selection . |
| 8 | The search tree is just a sub-tree of the knowledge graph with scores on its branches reflecting the goodness of the match between the input data and the branch description . |
| 9 | Even lower inflation is just a consequence of far higher unemployment . |
| 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 | Well Carolyn 's here tomorrow Geoff to show that age is just a state of mind . |
| 12 | ‘ Unless you know how to use it , ’ she sighed , ‘ a Scrabble game is just a boxful of junk . ’ |
| 13 | It might be objected that the doubleness is just a trick of Porfiry 's . |
| 14 | The Big Man is just a voice on the phone : he 's left us too long . |
| 15 | A mutant gene in a beaver is just a change in one letter of the billion-letter text ; a change in a particular gene G. As the young beaver grows , the change is copied , together with all the other letters in the text , into all the beaver 's cells . |
| 16 | This problem has to be tackled head on ; without it any other tinkering with the legislation is just a waste of time . ’ |
| 17 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 18 | For most people , music is just a part of their leisure , although inevitably there are some who want more from it . |
| 19 | Until a child has achieved that understanding , a numeral is just a shape with no real meaning . |
| 20 | Although considered a key element , motivation training is just a part of the Celomer programme . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is not to suggest that Worsley 's book is just a compilation of pretty drawings . |
| 23 | Er the blue book is just a guide for yourselves as cos Neighbourhood Watch members . |
| 24 | The following list is just a sample of new courses and schemes , many of which illustrate the way that the University is developing new ideas to meet the needs of people who want further training but who are not in a position to commit themselves to full-time study . |
| 25 | The BUS is just a set of parallel electrical conductors , and its width depends on how many conductors there are . |
| 26 | This city is just a collection of villages which happen to share the same map reference . ’ |
| 27 | The character Sarrasine in Balzac 's story is just a collection of traits which is arbitrarily unified through being called ‘ Sarrasine ’ . |
| 28 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 29 | Sandaway is just a jumble of rocks with a sprinkling of sand but a real sun trap and haven of peace and quiet . |
| 30 | In a ‘ market driven ’ world the computer is just a bit of the machinery , the engine , as it were , but not the car . |