Example sentences of "just [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it seemed in the restaurant of the Golden Eagle at Thornaby , just half a dozen computer salesmen ( and others similarly programmed ) dining disconsolately in desultory ones and twos . |
| 2 | She 's just such a nice person ! |
| 3 | Luckily , I had a speech up my sleeve prepared for just such a glorious occasion . |
| 4 | It 's just such a good spirit , I think that needs to be depicted . |
| 5 | The grief-stricken old man in blue of the St Rémy days sits head in hand on just such a shining chair by a fire with fragile flames . |
| 6 | Yeah we enjoy it but it 's just such a long drive |
| 7 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 8 | They would employ if it was just such a small thing . |
| 9 | The subjects of Picasso 's paintings have just such a measured look . |
| 10 | The winter of discontent' of 1978/9 played just such a powerful role in British politics because it was composed of extremely powerful images . |
| 11 | I speak from embarrassed experience , having embarked under the nom-de-plume of Evelyn Hervey on just such a foolish enterprise , though I hope frenzied ingenuity will eventually wriggle me out of too much trouble . |
| 12 | A single instance of B , and of B on its own , can not enable us to associate it with A. The universe as a whole , however , is just such a single instance : we have no direct experience either of other worlds or of world-designers . |
| 13 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 14 | ‘ I loved Thunderbirds — it was just such a weird TV programme — there was nothing else like it . |
| 15 | On the EPR paradox it seemed that the Copenhagen school had achieved just such a Pyrrhic victory . |
| 16 | I wanted to tell her that I was just such a silly creature and could n't believe that I would ever be warm again . |
| 17 | Just such a remarkable feat happened two years running in 1928 and 1929 , with Tipperary Tim and Gregalach respectively . |