Example sentences of "[be] [adv] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest job in the world … you 're never just a housewife … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For many locals , however , they are now just a part of the scenery . |
| 4 | I 'm still just a blur . ’ |
| 5 | I was going to be here just a week . |
| 6 | The doors were open just a crack . |
| 7 | But the Gang Of Four were never just a pop group . |
| 8 | But the Gang Of Four were never just a pop group . |
| 9 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 10 | Considering Truna 's only just a teenager . |
| 11 | Mum , this is only just a yard . |
| 12 | Fitch 's arrival — and that of next-door neighbours DEGW — is perhaps just a harbinger of what 's to come . |
| 13 | ( You may swear that your dog has a great sense of humour but all that tail-wagging is apparently just a greeting signal ! ) |
| 14 | It 's generally just a couple of bob here or a cigarette or something like that . ’ |
| 15 | It is all very well to talk about observables being represented by operators but the result of an actual measurement is always just a number . |
| 16 | but when you get a co , like you call flu , it 's usually just a head cold . |
| 17 | There 's usually just a ransom demand and then a longish gap to put the parents in a panic . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | A shop is just a shop , and even a shop selling expensive executive toys is still just a shop , but a museum is , well , glamorous . |
| 20 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 21 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 22 | It 's probably just a holiday . |
| 23 | I think that 's probably just a bit bald , is n't it . |
| 24 | It 's probably just a case of a couple of screws to take the cover off . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's probably just a phase we 're going through . ’ |
| 26 | It 's probably just a label devised by some journalists to make their job easier . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah there 's about just a minute |
| 28 | That 's to say , Madeleine is really just a memory now — and not a very happy one . |
| 29 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 30 | This is really just a formality . ’ |