Example sentences of "[be] [adj] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As far as much of the rest of the world is concerned , we 're all just a bunch of queers .
2 ‘ We 're all just a bunch of crazies , ’ being one of them .
3 The shops , Marina and Conference Centre are all just a stroll away .
4 is that an Orkney way of doing it or is that just a sort of male thing ?
5 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
6 Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ?
7 Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas .
8 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
9 Is this just a game for you ?
10 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 .
11 It 's all just a myth .
12 ‘ But it 's all just a coincidence ! ’ said Angalo .
13 Doubtless it 's all just a safety precaution and will come to nothing .
14 Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ?
15 Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body .
16 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 .
17 Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience .
18 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 .
19 Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions .
20 It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in .
21 It was all just a moment 's mental aberration !
22 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 .
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