Example sentences of "be just a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am just a man in love . ’ |
| 2 | Alas , they are just a trifle over life size . |
| 3 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 4 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 5 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 6 | ‘ I might say : you 're just a lot of dust and juices and bones and hair , and that 's true . |
| 7 | You 're just a piece of shit and if I stepped on you I 'd scrape you off my shoe . |
| 8 | I told her you 're just a bag of shit with a pretty face who needs his arse kicked . |
| 9 | You 're just a sexclone with steel teeth , and I ai n't interested . ’ |
| 10 | I mean , it could be just a piece of grass that cut him . |
| 11 | That both planets should be suffering ice ages simultaneously may , of course , be just a matter of coincidence ; but it seems more likely that there is a common cause . |
| 12 | Whether your baby grows up to be right or left-handed may not be just a matter of chance or heredity . |
| 13 | With Walsh then skimming the bar with a spectacular overhead shot , it seemed to be just a matter of time before Tottenham would score . |
| 14 | ‘ It would seem to be just a matter of time before the man 's identified . ’ |
| 15 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 16 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 17 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 18 | All this shows that Attica was far from being just a city with territory round it , but was a compromise between a centralized state and a federal one . |
| 19 | ‘ Unless you know how to use it , ’ she sighed , ‘ a Scrabble game is just a boxful of junk . ’ |
| 20 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 21 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Is just a scrag of neck . |
| 26 | It is just a case of time will heal . |
| 27 | It is just a case of time will heal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat |