Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] just a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 2 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 3 | Today she said : ‘ Naturally job losses tend to be highlighted but just a few weeks ago a new business opened creating 80 jobs . |
| 4 | remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing ! |
| 5 | There were hakas and waving flags , and such high-falutin' gushing that , in comparison , the crusades might have appeared as just a quick trip around the block for a gratifying little scrap . |
| 6 | I think that just a few points that needs to be made . |
| 7 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 8 | She snuggled down beneath the duvet , desperately trying not to think that just a short while ago it had been wrapped round his powerful body , but as she turned her face into the pillow she was all but overwhelmed by the scent of him — a clean , heady , masculine smell that owed nothing to any kind of artificial fragrance . |
| 9 | But today the diary is regarded much more as an appointments aide-mémoire , and for the ‘ ordinary ’ person the keeping of a detailed diary of daily events would probably be regarded as just a little eccentric and perhaps even self-centred . |
| 10 | The underlying purpose of recording new information must be made clear to avoid it being regarded as just a bureaucratic exercise . |
| 11 | You may find that just a subtle difference but I think that in terms of the way erm make allocation in our local plan , that it does cause some confusion . |