Example sentences of "but [det] [is] just the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor man — I do n't know what he thought about me , but that 's just the way it happened . |
| 2 | But that 's just the way they 'd rather be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the point , that 's just the brilliance of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the Earth 's gravity . |
| 9 | Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning . |
| 10 | But that is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 11 | But that is just the start . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Litter disfigures the countryside and contributes to pollution , but this is just the tip of the environmental iceberg . |
| 14 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 15 | But this is just the mirror image of the bourgeois view that whenever workers take a militant stance this must be due to manipulation by agitators , and again does not reflect people 's considered judgement . |
| 16 | But this is just the beginning . |
| 17 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |