Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Maastricht Treaty without the Social Chapter is just a charter for business . |
| 2 | A Mob without a proper leader is just a liability . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 6 | If you do n't believe in religion , you might think that er , the world was just kind of here for no particular reason , and er , that human existence was just a kind of accident or something happen happened , and er , has no has no greater significance . |
| 7 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 8 | ‘ For that kind of penance they will pay £550 and know that the hard work is just a beginning . |
| 9 | The giant fiddler was just a statue now . |
| 10 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 11 | Sir Eric is not expecting the sky to fall in over his campus , but in a sense that is the problem — graceful degradation is just a mite too graceful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Of course , the intriguing question is whether our abstract schemes for programs and/or documents are true pointers to some powerful universal truth , or whether the sense of elegance and economy in a good approach is just a delusion . |
| 14 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 15 | The hotel has its own exclusive restaurant , a popular bar plus its own swimming pool and children 's pool and , of course , the Club 's main amenities and superb beach are just a couple of hundred yards away . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | First of all the grim reaper grim reaper 's just a name for a fictional being and I think that is a normal |
| 18 | The Big Man is just a voice on the phone : he 's left us too long . |
| 19 | Or perhaps the recent tremor was just a prelude to the really big one . |
| 20 | Er the blue book is just a guide for yourselves as cos Neighbourhood Watch members . |
| 21 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 22 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 23 | That whole day was just a wreck . |
| 24 | I think it , this is whole scheme is just a case experimenting and trying things with different work |
| 25 | I told the doctor ; but he said that the whole adventure was just a dream , the result of cold , tiredness and a violent bang on the head . |
| 26 | That original production was just a compilation of fairly amateur footage , but now Havis has moved into the big league with broadcast TV-quality programmes featuring the pilot's-eye view of a number of interesting routes flown by different airlines worldwide . |