Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] be just a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And that 's just a shelf , so when you 've got the stuff coming out .
2 and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll
3 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 .
4 but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but
5 And this is just a fact : indeed an introspectible fact , which we can therefore all observe directly for ourselves .
6 Well they 've made it absolutely much more pressing and this is just a drop in the ocean .
7 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 .
8 If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size .
9 But that 's just a way of changing key .
10 That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady .
11 I was high on LSD probably , but that 's just a guess . ’
12 It also sounds a bit like the late Joan Crawford — but that 's just a guess !
13 ‘ There 's Cockfosters , sir , but that 's just a cage , too , and the school opposite Wandsworth Prison .
14 It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’
15 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 .
16 But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 But that was just a full-dress rehearsal .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives .
23 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 .
24 ( 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 . )
25 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
26 Erm now it , it 's interesting to point out that female choice and of course one of the best examples of that is birds where the female chooses not , you saw it on the film , but this is just a reminder .
27 Also Tore-Andre Flo — the young brother of Jostein Flo is supposed to train for a week or two at Sheff Utd ; but this is just a training stay — nothing to do with Sheff Utd offering him a contract or so .
28 well they are now , my daughter now has a proper bum bag , but this was just a school , purse for school , just for break time .
29 But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like .
30 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 .
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