Example sentences of "that be just a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
2 | All that is just a function of X whatever number X is X is for . |
3 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
4 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
5 | ‘ That 's just a trick of the eyesight . |
6 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
7 | By nature , it is wet and that 's , that 's just a feature of water . |
8 | that 's just a smir of rain . |
9 | That 's just a note of what we just did . |
10 | and he ends up with Creme Eggs and then proper eggs and that and I thought that 's just a waste of money at his age cos when Easter comes up , four weeks after he 's seventeen . |
11 | If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them . |
12 | Well that 's just no that 's I think that 's just a renewal of vows . |
13 | I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference . |
14 | It 's a fairly safe bet that the ASB will be heavily criticised in five years ' time in any case ; that 's just a fact of life that standard-setters in the UK have to accept . |
15 | That 's just a taste of the song . |
16 | So for all these journalists to cry foul because they 're not being given a plane and they 're not being allowed to fly in — I think that 's just a bunch of bullshit . |
17 | I hate to listen to guitarists rattle off rubbish about ‘ the only thing that matters is the story of the song ’ because that 's just a bunch of crap ! |
18 | ‘ That 's just a figure of speech . |
19 | Erm , that 's not a change of any one book , that 's just a replacement of one book by another . |
20 | Oh , but of course , ’ she added harshly , ‘ I forgot ; that was just a whim on your part , was n't it ? |
21 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
22 | and that was just a bowl of soup and a , a roll |
23 | People in Walton believe that was just a ruse by the youths . |
24 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
25 | ‘ That was just a figure of speech , ’ said the doctor . |
26 | Oh well , that was just a waste of break . |
27 | Erm , oh god , the next item is the Essex Region and erm that was just a report from Norfolk on the success of it . |