Example sentences of "that it was just [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires .
2 He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me , by promising that it was just a bit further .
3 ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun .
4 We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill .
5 So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend .
6 Mr Sisulu said that it was just a draft plan , which had not been adopted .
7 Equally , the Iranian operation could not be explained because , in its respectable long-term aims , it was complicated ; and most people would doubtless insist , as they did , that it was just a piece of barter .
8 After the fiasco in Prague I began to wonder whether there was any point in my running in any more relay teams , began to think that it was just a waste of everyone 's time .
9 Recalled Kenny : ‘ Before a previous Scotland-England game , one of our coaches , Jim Telfer , stepped in with a reminder to everybody that it was just a game of rugby we were going out to play and that we all had responsibilities .
10 Then it went straight up so fast that it was just a blur and jerked to a halt high over the crowd .
11 Now Councillor thinks that it was just an accident and people will understand .
12 and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line .
13 that it was just the liver .
14 He 'd thought that it was just the calendar which had been turned to the correct month , but something else had been changed too .
15 Thomas said that the two women were very suggestible , that it was just the wind and that the claw marks were certainly many centuries old .
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