Example sentences of "just a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He 's not just a one position man .
2 If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else .
3 It 's charged by just a one litre petrol or diesel generator .
4 Certainly , it is trying to create atmosphere rather than just a memorable sing-along tune .
5 What if it 's just a cheap take-over shot and Madreidetic are n't the guilty ones ?
6 would appeal to children , I mean knowing how sophisticated things are today , it 's just a simple glove puppet and yet kids are just as interested in them
7 ‘ It was n't difficult at all ; I mean , it 's just a simple guitar riff really , not a Mahler symphony or anything !
8 ‘ It is just a simple business decision , ’ he added .
9 By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time .
10 Even if it 's just a simple wee song ?
11 To begin with , consider just a simple series circuit embracing total inductance L and resistance R into which a steady e.m.f. is suddenly introduced at time .
12 The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit .
13 From the outset , it has been clear that COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , would have to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place ( CI No 2,142 ) .
14 From the outset we 've known COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place .
15 This , they claimed , was not the same as the self-declared Bosnian Serb state , it was just a temporary wartime measure .
16 Somebody quite disgracefully suggested that the amendment was just a fictitious fig leaf which was designed to cover the cracks in the Labour party !
17 Experience at the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( see Appendix III ) shows that — at least for the generally poor people who go to the Centre with money problems — mail order , check traders and other weekly callers such as tallymen are woven so closely into the fabric of daily ( or rather weekly ) life as to be more than just a possible buying choice .
18 It 's just a twelve page document , but it 's it 's the result of a customer survey which was carried out .
19 Just a normal tape recorder .
20 I do n't want a lonely life , just a normal family life again .
21 It 's just a normal shop window — you know , with lights on and these statues and that , but it 's been done like it 's someone 's dining room .
22 He may be the Grand Wizard in international intrigue or mass murder , but as a dreamer , he 's just a jumped-up wank manager .
23 It 's just a cynical publicity campaign to promote himself and sell more copies of the video .
24 He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details .
25 Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again .
26 Now , by setting the scene we 'll take an example , just a straight course statement , alright ?
27 We have a tremendous skill base at doing good due diligence work when all said and done due diligence work is really just a focussed audit approach and if we 've good auditors , we should jolly well and good er new diligence er provides and we to react to new diligence opportunities rather than seek out new diligence opportunities .
28 Just a long stone room but legend has it that the Templars used it for their mysteries .
29 PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut .
30 At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 .
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