Example sentences of "[adj] just a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He picked one of the snowflakes off the parapet and began to read it , but it was not very interesting just a salt report from some sub-district or other . |
2 | I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner . |
3 | Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ? |
4 | Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’ |
5 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
6 | Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ? |
7 | ‘ Is this just a game for you ? |
8 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
9 | E two if it was carried forward sir after this morning 's discussion also does n't help us because , as the county made clear this morning and made very clear just a minute ago , it would use such a policy , it sees its position as being to block erm the er inward investment planning terms to block it as er erm being out of tune with the county 's general conservation and environmental policies . |
10 | So sorry just a moment . |
11 | In any case , my wig is more that just a wig . |
12 | is that an Orkney way of doing it or is that just a sort of male thing ? |
13 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
14 | ‘ Or is that just an Eldar wearing a human mask ? ’ she asked . |
15 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
16 | However , he had returned all but three of the tourists ' passports to the safe-keeping of the Manager at The Randolph — the latter just a fraction irked that it now appeared to be his own responsibility to return these passports to whatever location the departed tourists happened to find themselves in . |
17 | ‘ But it 's all just a coincidence ! ’ said Angalo . |
18 | The ironic thing about the film was that it was n't different at all just a rehash of the best TV sketches . |
19 | The shops , Marina and Conference Centre are all just a stroll away . |
20 | It 's all just a myth . |
21 | So what about the retro space-cadet '70s image — hipsters and plastic zap guns , is n't it all just a bit comic-strip ? |
22 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
23 | One is that it is n't all just a question of the Scottish hierarchy being thralled to Rome in such a way that it can not do what it wants . |
24 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
25 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
26 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
27 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
28 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
29 | If it is all just a matter of philosophy , then anyone can voice an opinion on it , and there may be differing views of what ‘ humanity ’ consists of behind it all . |
30 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |