Example sentences of "but [adj] be just [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 2 | That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady . |
| 3 | I was high on LSD probably , but that 's just a guess . ’ |
| 4 | It also sounds a bit like the late Joan Crawford — but that 's just a guess ! |
| 5 | ‘ There 's Cockfosters , sir , but that 's just a cage , too , and the school opposite Wandsworth Prison . |
| 6 | Poor man — I do n't know what he thought about me , but that 's just the way it happened . |
| 7 | But that 's just the way they 'd rather be . |
| 8 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the point , that 's just the brilliance of it . |
| 10 | But that 's just the sort of costly stunt that the unconventional Richard Branson attempts when he 's not at the helm of his two highly successful businesses , music group Virgin and airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 11 | But that 's just the nature of the beast of , of the fact he had fifteen minutes , it 's , it 's only an observation really . |
| 12 | But that 's just the start ; counts of 200 are not uncommon and in summer 1984 the pollen count in central London reached a record 820 . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the Earth 's gravity . |
| 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 | Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning . |
| 17 | But that is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 18 | But that is just the start . ’ |
| 19 | Still to come , Oxford 's Ice Hockey team , the Spire Oxford City Stars , ar runners up in the autumn cup , but that is just the start . |
| 20 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But that was just a full-dress rehearsal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 27 | She wanted to dine with him , of course she did — but that was just the trouble . |
| 28 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |