Example sentences of "be just [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that you people are just over a bank holiday weekend and so will be slower than usual voicing your comments to the net but WE WON after all . |
| 2 | Matt black with tiny fawn flecks , they are just under a centimetre long . |
| 3 | ‘ We are just at a point if we have anything to say , we really could not , ’ the company told Reuter , but it did say that it had hired Morgan Stanley & Co as its ‘ financial consultant , ’ along with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette , but declined to say whether the investment banks are underwriters for a stock offering . |
| 4 | Are just like a couple of tots . |
| 5 | ‘ These goats are just like a lot of prep . |
| 6 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 7 | I mean , you 're just in a cell , you 're locked up , it makes you think , ‘ Right , that was my mistake , but next time I 'm going to get further , I 'm going to get the better of them . |
| 8 | Grattan Direct Line and we 're just like a company Grattan but Grattan own it sort of thing and basically what it is , it 's a daily delivery to the door . |
| 9 | She wondered then , since Ven was proving so elusive , whether she should take the opportunity on what she estimated would be just under a hundred-mile drive to Prague to get in there with some of Cara 's questions . |
| 10 | But , if so , it will be just as a matter of fact . |
| 11 | This will often be just after a meal , when they are feeling drowsy . |
| 12 | he said ( keeping his voice down ; there were people nearby ) , " but I do n't want to be just like a brother to you . " |
| 13 | I 'm not a fucking squeak I 'm just in a choir . |
| 14 | You , yeah er er yes I 'd er you 're quite right , at the moment I 'm just in a sense presenting the the pr you know the arguments of those in favour , we , we 'll , we 'll , we 'll make this point in a second , yeah . |
| 15 | I 'm just in a meeting at the minute . |
| 16 | They were just of a height . |
| 17 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 18 | So that it would if it were were just like a trough . |
| 19 | ‘ It is just over a metre high . ’ |
| 20 | Swimming : There 's an enormous ‘ Aquarena ’ in Kitzbuhel itself , or you may prefer the warm waters of the Schwarzsee , which is just over a mile from the centre . |
| 21 | The hotel is just over a mile from the town centre and 150 yards from the Lido beach . |
| 22 | That 's three seventy eight for five hundred grammes , and five hundred grammes is just over a pound . |
| 23 | And it is just over a month since she wept tears of frustration during an arduous visit to the dust and famine of drought-stricken Somalia . |
| 24 | They say the relationship is just like a marriage . |
| 25 | An ox is just like a cow . |
| 26 | And the British holiday resort is just like a symbol of Britain 's absurdity , really . |
| 27 | What happens in er in genetics and how the genetic code is passed on , is that er this double strand of er this double strand is unzipped as it were , and it is just like a kind of zip fastener in that the teeth are the corresponding bases . |
| 28 | I do n't think they do , this is just like a sample , , so we know what we 're talking about and we do n't . |
| 29 | It is just like a baby alarm . |
| 30 | This is just in a courtyard and there 'll be shrubs and things so she 's got |