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Example sentences of "just a [adj] thing " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It 's just a stick-on thing .
2	‘ It does n't matter , and anyway it 's just a short-term thing ; they will produce more jobs eventually .
3	Was just a normal thing to do
4	it 's just a normal thing that happens
5	They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it .
6	As one pupil succinctly put it ‘ you then treat them without any respect because they do n't give you any , so really it 's just a two-way thing ’ .
7	The company have n't asked me to do it it 's just er erm just a personal thing .
8	It is not just A Good Thing , but seen as an important part of the business .
9	Our safety regulations er dictate that they be a certain distance from the crowd , so that if anything did go wrong , the aircraft would be able to er get out of the way , but no , there is not going to be any danger at all , they 'll make their approaches to the base as if they were attacking , and then we 'll have simulated ground bursts , a large fire as it were , on the ground , it will be going off , providing the sound effects for it , but it 's going to be just a great thing to sit and watch .
10	This morning he 'd thought the sky was just a blue thing with clouds .
11	The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche .
12	just a bad thing to do in n it ?
13	I never had a singing lesson in my life , it was just a natural thing for me . ’
14	It was just a funny thing to have happened , after what you said .
15	Just a token thing . ’
16	But it was more than just a physical thing .
17	I do n't feel hungry it 's just a psychological thing when you 're dieting is n't it , that you , you feel
18	The impact it had on me was that here were a lot of gay people who were interested in politics ; for whom it was n't just a social thing to do after work .
19	I believe she was very young — just a little thing — but it must have seemed the best thing to do in the circumstances .
20	Just another point of interest to you people just a little thing that dropped out was that Mr er Mr died
21	And of course , our discussion of ministry i.e. the activity of the people of God is not just a domestic thing about the URC .
22	well yes , yes I wondered whether I 'd got it right you know , it sounded just a silly thing to ask and erm and I erm had to consider that probably asked whether I had erm made a mistake in my shorthand before , before I actually typed it but erm , anyway they seemed erm reasonably satisfied and everybody was very kindly and erm considerate and
23	Erm , then she becomes a sort of literal th the vampire , as it were , is reduced and she becomes just a wild thing .
24	It 's just a human thing , is n't it ?
25	But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ?
26	Oh in large measure it was just a fun thing to do .
27	Oh it 's just a beautiful thing , really .
28	So , for example , if I was doing there 's no writing involved , just a speaking thing .
29	So they know its not just a boring/unhumourous thing ?
30	It would n't last — nothing as wonderful as this ever did ; common sense told her their truce was just a transitory thing , things between them were too volatile , too unstable .