Example sentences of "[noun] be just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nirvana are just a rip off of them really . |
| 2 | It the belief becomes current in public opinion that in the arguments between government and opposition it is not really a matter of opposing opinions being presented , then the impression will increasingly gain currency that parliamentary discussions are just a game . |
| 3 | The clay tiles that surround this text are just a taste of the wealth of colours , forms and textures that await you . |
| 4 | But they admit that many warning signs are just a bluff . |
| 5 | Their differing opinions are just a discussion , with no heated feelings at all , and Jack is obeyed without argument . |
| 6 | These animals are just a handful from the diversity of the natural world and have been hounded to near extinction by trade , disappearing habitat and hunting . |
| 7 | There are few modern mixed routes here — the crags are just a bit too clean for good buttress climbing with its reliance on frozen turf and heather . |
| 8 | The words could be stored contiguously in an array , so each element of the array would in effect be just a character , and each word would have to be terminated with a dummy character , for example a null character . |
| 9 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 10 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 11 | As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion . |
| 12 | There , raggamuffin rules and Tuff Gong is just a part of the dollar-hoover tourist industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone knows that the Liberal Club is just a name for people opposed to Klaus , ’ says a financial expert who shares the minister 's economic ideas . |
| 14 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 15 | Now the Maastricht Treaty without the Social Chapter is just a charter for business . |
| 16 | The boar with a flower in his mouth is just a conceit and an obsession . |
| 17 | The visit to the stables is just a bonus . |
| 18 | ‘ Because you 'll see that Grandson Richard is just a human . |
| 19 | The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles , the witless bank clerk . |
| 20 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 21 | ‘ If you ask me , that story about Gebrec having something on his mind was just a cover-up . |
| 22 | A guidebook on the mantlepiece adds that until the plague did for Wensley , Leyburn was just a speck on the map anyway . |
| 23 | Thailand , Malaysia , India , Canada , New England , Kenya , Jamaica and Florida are just a handful of the places we have chosen for our impressive 1990 programme . |
| 24 | Sir , — When the local fox hunts are just a memory who will be there to control the ever-increasing fox population ? |
| 25 | Puzzling pines and poorly potatoes are just a couple of the problems to be solved by our team of BBC experts this month |
| 26 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
| 27 | The voice began to sing softly in his ear , something about a kiss being just a kiss , a sigh being just a sigh . |
| 28 | Everyone thought that Zagrat were just a bunch of old beardies from the headster time . ’ |
| 29 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 30 | Sometimes you do n't even know what they 're for , because the ad is just a cartoon girl taking the dog for a walk or something . |