Example sentences of "[adv] just a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reported that Marlon Brando refused to play scenes with him during the shooting of Mutiny on the Bounty , although it 's never been quite clear if this story is n't perhaps just a bit of blarney from the Irish hellraiser . |
| 2 | Fitch 's arrival — and that of next-door neighbours DEGW — is perhaps just a harbinger of what 's to come . |
| 3 | Perhaps just a couple of others , you may want to think about things like Questions . |
| 4 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 5 | Freedom , we now notice , is not always a higher ideal than those with which it competes , nor is rationality necessarily just a matter of self-interest . |
| 6 | It is n't very long Should n't be in there long just a matter of signing all the things , checking all the details over , putting in what he has n't filled in already . |
| 7 | Effects were kept to a minimum , mostly just a touch of reverb on the occasional guitar part , although the band admit to a growing interest in outdated analogue floor pedals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And given you know just just a bit of help , be it financial or or erm housing or or help in terms of of contact and support and er you know having having people round you you can call on . |
| 10 | But , like you say maybe just just a bit of wrought |
| 11 | It 's generally just a couple of bob here or a cigarette or something like that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The stage at the end was an alcove in the ballroom , a big one , but still just a part of the whole . |
| 15 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 16 | It 's probably just a case of a couple of screws to take the cover off . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's really just a bunch of guys that I work with on the session scene who all write a bit , and we 've come together in order to find an outlet for our writing . |
| 18 | Really just a point of clarification on one popular matters that erm Mr Thomson raised about er limits of settlement . |
| 19 | The problem is really just a matter of working out how many " 1 ½ " there are in 30 . |
| 20 | It 's a well-founded Dales village , mentioned in the Domesday Book , with a fascinating and somewhat turbulent , if bizarre history Cotherstone Castle , which loomed over the confluence of the rivers Tees and Balder , is now just a heap of rubble . |
| 21 | For many locals , however , they are now just a part of the scenery . |
| 22 | The once modern coaling plant was now just a mass of huge broken lumps of concrete . |
| 23 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 24 | Michael Lawrence says that the Government accepts there is a problem and that ideally something ought to be done about it : ‘ It 's now just a question of what can be afforded ’ . |
| 25 | It was now just a matter of persuading the public that their operation would be as safe as could possibly be devised . |
| 26 | The same applies to monetary targets , now just a melange of notes and coins ; and to nominal GDP , which Mr Major did n't even mention . |
| 27 | It is true that today 's speakers , not knowing the origins of generic he , may regard it as just a feature of grammar . |
| 28 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 29 | The innocent pre-pump strainer or filter — seemingly just a block of foam that keeps grit from jamming the pump — can be quite controversial . |
| 30 | The others , and that maybe just a question of tying them up and |