Example sentences of "just a [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Just a minute part of the mass of aircraft present at Oshkosh 92 . |
2 | Hewitt , who even kept in contact with the princess while he was serving in the Gulf , is presently based just a quarter-of-a mile from Kensington Palace . |
3 | The pantry was just a walk-in alcove off the kitchen . |
4 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
5 | A Feminist Dictionary , compiled by Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler , is not just a nonsexist version of the standard dictionary , but an attempt to break down the monolithic authority of dictionaries in general . |
6 | Of every 200 16-year-olds just a couple plump for an engineering degree , and only one of those becomes an engineer . |
7 | Seen by some as just a price/performance kicker in its initial guises , Intel is having well-documented problems in getting yields of the more important 66MHz part ( UX No 410 ) , and is reportedly still unable to get power consumption on the thing down to four watts . |
8 | Just occasionally she has these lucid moments where she 's suddenly there again but it does n't mean anything , it 's just a chance set of connections in what 's left of her brain that soon gets lost . |
9 | Making the PostScript Card ‘ active ’ is a just a menu selection from the EPL-4000's LCD screen , and hey presto instant 100% genuine PostScript . |
10 | For whatever reason , you decided to resume your relationship with Jones — or was it just a weekend fling for old times ’ sake ? |
11 | For me it is just a childhood memory of noise and confusion . |
12 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
13 | As a consequence , the sequence of development of a contract on an options exchange is initially to offer just a call option on the underlying , and when that is established to supplement it with a put contract . |
14 | These exhibits were mostly just single figures , not set out in any kind of tableau , but isolated in their stage clothes with just a name plate for company . |
15 | Friends say the flaxen-haired singer is thinking about recording the B 52 's Rock Lobster hit but we reckon that he 's just a shellfish kind of a guy |
16 | ‘ Look , look , my mother 's ghost ! ’ cried Apricot , pointing , though there was nothing there , or hardly anything , just a warning shimmer in the air outside Rhoda 's bedroom . |
17 | ‘ I met a parson once that was good to me , but he never gave me any treacle tart , just a kind message of 'ope . |
18 | I counted at least 15 snippets of tunes in the half-hour slot and none resembled a conventional song , just a patchwork quilt of ideas . |
19 | Just a buffet meal after the registration , and an introductory talk from Anthea ; the real nitty-gritty begins on Friday morning . ’ |
20 | There has been little previous research into the origins of this group , nor into whether farm management is a career in its own right or just a stepping stone to becoming a tenant or owner-occupier . |
21 | The classical electron can be conceived , so to speak , as just a midget brother of everyday things . |
22 | The putatively modern new business district was more or less haphazardly established along the Leipziger Strasse , just a bit west of the old city centre . |
23 | just a bit sort of all right . |
24 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
25 | Mr Bangemann delivered a damning speech in Berlin in which he declared that the treaty is just a staging post on the road to a European superstate . |
26 | The Bohr atom was just a staging post on the way to the quantum world rather than the point of entry into the land itself . |
27 | He picked one of the snowflakes off the parapet and began to read it , but it was not very interesting just a salt report from some sub-district or other . |
28 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
29 | now it 's just a news sheet from , of Zambia |
30 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |