Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application forms are not just a routine procedure . |
| 2 | The group of houses are now just a few yards away and at the sight of the French civilians lining the route , all tiredness is now forgotten and a spring has appeared in our step . |
| 3 | Taxes are not just a way of paying for welfare : they can be a way of promoting welfare too . |
| 4 | The stupid thing is that U2 are not just a good new rock-pop group , ‘ boy is n't it great that they can emerge out of the unhelpful Irish environment ’ . |
| 5 | This phenomenon of matrix isolation is not just a pretty toy : it can be exploited as a tool as well . |
| 6 | Running a drug-testing programme is not just a matter of buying a lot of paper cups . |
| 7 | Social anthropology is not just a branch of biochemistry . |
| 8 | And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest , most resonant irony is n't just a well-brushed , well-educated coincidence . |
| 9 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |
| 10 | Dostoevsky 's groping backwards past Crime and Punishment towards Notes from Underground is not just a matter of arriving at Stavrogin . |
| 11 | The distinction between ‘ scientific ’ and ‘ political ’ research is not just a dodge to help the big German foundations avoid embarrassing their patrons . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) This de-differentiation of signifier and referent is not just a matter of every-day life being experienced as a spatio-temporal configuration of signifiers , it is also a matter of the content of properly cultural objects themselves . |
| 13 | A teddy bear is n't just a childhood plaything , it 's a lifetime committment . |
| 14 | Despite rising ten-fold over the past decade , the tax on company cars is still just a fraction of the true value of the perk ( see page 27 ) . |
| 15 | Ineffective screening is not just a waste of money . |
| 16 | In Glasgow fighting between fans was not just a matter for juveniles . |
| 17 | Eleanor was mainly just a red herring , he decided . |
| 18 | Private court patronage was not just a reserve of employment for members of a political interest , however , for there was danger in it for the patron . |
| 19 | The head of an observer team from the US Carter Center , Richard Joseph , was quoted as saying that " real instances of malfeasance are really just a handful " , and this view was echoed by observers from the Organization of African Unity . |
| 20 | Even the Beatles were only just a national phenomenon , although interest had widened outward from their music to include their somewhat innovative hair styles . |
| 21 | ‘ Gina , I know rape is not just a physical assault , I know Miranda might never recover from the emotional damage , I am concerned for the girl . ’ |
| 22 | No the thing is I mean like Z Z Z Zed 's , Zed 's , Zed 's not just a boyfriend to me because he 's a real good friend of mine as well . |
| 23 | We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities . |
| 24 | To be so far ahead of other worldwide countries is really just a gratuitous deterrent . |
| 25 | THE LAST BOY SCOUT ( Warner Bros ) Slam bang action pic whose hectic anti-drugs/sports corruption plot is really just a hook for inspired boy 's own banter between Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis . |
| 26 | The sacred canopy of a still Christian England is not just a question of shared beliefs and a common moral perspective : it is an involvement in communal , religious and social rituals which bind people together . |
| 27 | In short , the administration of the Church of England is not just a spiritual matter ; it is also a managerial task of daunting proportions . |
| 28 | With her , disapproval is not just a state of mind . |
| 29 | Sound symbolism is not just a matter of a certain number of words containing certain sounds happening also to fall into the same semantic area . |
| 30 | Dollo 's Law is really just a statement about the statistical improbability of following exactly the same evolutionary trajectory twice ( or , indeed , any particular trajectory ) , in either direction . |