Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] just [art] " in BNC.

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1 Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting .
2 The majority of staff — 62 per cent — read all or most of Newsline while 38 per cent read some or just a little of the publication .
3 There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather .
4 But , back in England , The Smiths felt unsettled and just a little paranoid .
5 Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) .
6 That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours .
7 Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation .
8 ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ?
9 For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost .
10 ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night .
11 It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop .
12 It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop .
13 When applied to women universally this becomes a stereotype , overgeneralised and just a step away from the sexist argument that women are ‘ naturally ’ caring .
14 Labour council leader John Williams said the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate and High Row was long overdue and just the first step in a town improvement strategy .
15 Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown .
16 Two or three were just fairly old and frail and just the stress out there was getting to them and I suppose some had relatively minor but painful things , not life threatening , but just uncomfortable .
17 There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing .
18 I mean Neville Brody 's work , I think maybe goes just a little deeper than just a , you know , flourish , but I am not sure where he 's going with it .
19 A smile curled across his lips , masculine and just a little smug .
20 The best results were found from the combination of the two processes , the worst when just the rule-based method was used .
21 So it was ten amps with just the one , just the fifty ohm and now it , I mean this is n't right but just a , let's say that with both we 're going to get about eleven amps .
22 erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there ,
23 General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore !
24 Is it , what is it definite , I mean as a regular or just the one off or what ?
25 And here we 've got a couple that happen to be olive trees , and I , I 'm not so sure that just the fact that they 're olive trees really is that important .
26 Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day .
27 What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus .
28 His dummy , leading on the story of a northern factory which was allegedly poisoning its workers , had been marked down as brilliant and just the sort of hard-hitting stuff the paper wanted .
29 Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no .
30 ‘ This friction between her and your mother — was it really important or just a manifestation of teenage rebellion ? ’
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