Example sentences of "that be just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , letters like that are just a laugh , are n't they ? ’ she rushed on with a very poor effort at bravado . |
| 2 | ‘ But , ’ said Fergus , leaning forward , his eyes absorbed , ‘ surely that is just a legend ? ’ |
| 3 | That is just a want . |
| 4 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 5 | Because that is just a pile of shit |
| 6 | ‘ That is just a lie , ’ said Andrus . |
| 7 | All that is just a function of X whatever number X is X is for . |
| 8 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 9 | Their brief was simple and straight : attack the morale of the enemy , That is just a simplification , but that is what it amounted to . |
| 10 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
| 11 | I would like if possible not to do that any more , cos clearly that is just a duplication of material already elsewhere available . |
| 12 | You know that is just a joke . |
| 13 | Well that is just a crap jobby anyway ! |
| 14 | That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady . |
| 15 | That 's just a bracket notation made more explicit . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's just a trick of the eyesight . |
| 17 | Right , no , no , no , that 's just a divider responsible , |
| 18 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's just a dream , ’ Sergei Grigoryan , the second secretary of the local party , said . |
| 20 | that 's just a slip . |
| 21 | Erm , so that 's just a question to ask when you next come to erm this passage . |
| 22 | By nature , it is wet and that 's , that 's just a feature of water . |
| 23 | That 's just a stress reaction . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's just a coincidence — ‘ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's just a coincidence . |
| 26 | that 's just a smir of rain . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh no , that 's just a story , ’ said Tess . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's just a ploy — done to impress a prospective client who 's coming this afternoon. , |
| 29 | That 's just a T-shirt and this |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , that , ’ Flavia said , ‘ you must know that 's just a technicality . ’ |