Example sentences of "but [adj] is just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |