Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] just a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well they are now , my daughter now has a proper bum bag , but this was just a school , purse for school , just for break time . |
| 2 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 3 | I warned you this was just a fling |
| 4 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 5 | This was just a warning . |
| 6 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 7 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |
| 8 | This was just a back seat and very determined to stay that way . |
| 9 | This was just a continuation of the baseline . |
| 10 | And knowing this was just a beginning . |
| 11 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 12 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 13 | This was just a routine visit to an elderly patient to check that she was happy , and not in any pain , and also to stock her up on her medicines . |
| 14 | But , this was just a bang , sort of knocked |
| 15 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 16 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 17 | This was just a wind-up , a tease for his pleasure . |
| 18 | This was just a reconstruction — but answering the door to a stranger in this way cost phylis her seven hundred pounds life savings : |
| 19 | This was n't , this was just a programme |
| 20 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 21 | No , the Labour Party as far as I was concerned was just a meeting , a monthly meeting , in above the Co-op in Grove . |
| 22 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |
| 23 | But that was n't interesting , that was just a trick . |
| 24 | Oh , but of course , ’ she added harshly , ‘ I forgot ; that was just a whim on your part , was n't it ? |
| 25 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
| 26 | That was just a couple I did . |
| 27 | Anyway , that was just a symbol . |
| 28 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 29 | That was just a pretence to cover up her real affaire . |
| 30 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |