Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] just [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 2 | The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles , the witless bank clerk . |
| 3 | A guidebook on the mantlepiece adds that until the plague did for Wensley , Leyburn was just a speck on the map anyway . |
| 4 | Two Man of the Match performances in the victories over Wales and England were just a foretaste of what followed . |
| 5 | Everyone thought that Zagrat were just a bunch of old beardies from the headster time . ’ |
| 6 | Just like God saw that Gideon ( El Wimpo ) was the man to defeat the armies of the Midianites ( read about it in Judges 6–8 ) : he saw that the murderer Moses was just the man to free his people Israel from the grip of slavery in Egypt . |
| 7 | Da Ponte was just a professional himself , though a highly superior one . |
| 8 | The sixties were gone and Hopper was just a memory . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 've always said that Sollie Ollie was just a tad too radical to hold high office in these heah United States . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like saying Bob Marley was just a reggae guy . |
| 11 | ‘ And Monday was just a nightmare . |
| 12 | By the seventeenth century Stamford was just a shadow of its former self . |
| 13 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 14 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 15 | And Lancaster was just the sort of geezer to know his solicitor 's telephone number off by heart . |
| 16 | Gwen was just an excuse , and she lived in Norfolk . |
| 17 | I think you 'll find Cooper was just a touch deeper than him albeit very wide . |
| 18 | TO most of the Yorkshire team , Arthur ‘ Rocker ’ Robinson was just a face in the crowd at the thrilling Sunday League clash with Somerset at Middlesbrough last weekend . |
| 19 | Guy Sterne was just the kind of man to treat women as objects for sexual gratification , and as obliging servants to keep house and serve his meals … |
| 20 | ‘ Lucasta was just the sort of woman he used to like . |
| 21 | Randolph was just no use to the reindeer team as his white nose was n't any good . |
| 22 | Now that does n't the Kipsigy was just the study of the erm you know it 's a good statistical it 's good hard-hat social science you know with distribution and everything it 's all good stuff , erm they do n't say that , where we do know this is something I have researched myself very carefully , the Australian Aborigines erm we have rich data on this and I 've read an awful lot of it and I compared notes with world authorities like David McKnight and erm erm what 's his name erm Shapiro authority on this , and they agree that er that 's definitely what happens . |
| 23 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 24 | This time we 'd sought peace and quiet after a hectic time in Cornwall and Lundy , and the comfortable marina at Neyland was just the job . |
| 25 | This is interesting since Peavey did n't even start business until 1965 ; Hartley was just a kid in 1957 . |
| 26 | And Ipea was just the opposite . |
| 27 | But we lived near a battery , we lived out at Whale Park And when they they deciding give the Elizabeth was just a baby then and I used to grab Elizabeth and go in the bed and the d down quilt and the pillows on top of us and lie tight and send you until the was in the sitting room and the search light follow the plane was at The plane was that near the house that the searchlight come right into the window , and the next I ken was the bullets ricocheting off the roof . |
| 28 | It does n't sound like much of a cover story to me , and I prefer the idea that the locals thought Tony was just an eccentric who should not be allowed near sharp objects . |
| 29 | ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of . |
| 30 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |