Example sentences of "is just the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently the integer n is just the order of filter needed to synthesise the response of equation ( 12.2 ) . |
| 2 | I this is just the voice of reason . |
| 3 | He is just the kind of stable , bright young man we think can articulate our viewpoint and reach a mass of people . ’ |
| 4 | Certainly at least one alleged aphrodisiac , Spanish Fly , is said to work by inducing an itch … and making people itch is just the kind of thing viruses are good at . |
| 5 | Despite Harvey Pitcher 's reservations as to Martha 's ability to afford such a gift , I 'm sure it is just the kind of thing she would have engineered as a token of thanks . |
| 6 | This is just the kind of system that encourages crime . |
| 7 | Now his club 's tighthead , he has gone out of this way to improve his scrummaging technique with specialist advice from among others , his boss , Sandy Carmichael , the 50-times capped Scottish and Lions tighthead Iain Milne ( ‘ immensely helpful ’ ) and Jim Telfer ( ‘ he is just the kind of coach I need because I can be a bit lazy and the fact that he just keeps at you all the time was very good for me ’ ) . |
| 8 | Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion . |
| 9 | And that is just the kind of order , it seems to me , which ought to have been granted if the plaintiffs ' contentions are correct . |
| 10 | ‘ This is just the kind of thing you waste months reconstructing under laboratory conditions — the difference in reaction between when you think you 're morally right , and when you think you 're factually right . |
| 11 | For this reason , Tinbergen suggested the courtship signal was ancestrally a displacement activity , which is just the kind of activity one would expect from an animal during courtship . |
| 12 | They are times when the behaviour of an animal is uncertain ; which is just the kind of time when other animals will want information about what it is going to do . |
| 13 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |
| 14 | ‘ This is just the scream of the Luddites in a changing world . |
| 15 | Maybe a word is just the name of a mirage . |
| 16 | It is just the ratio of initial compliances , which must be applied to the observations of J(t) before they are plotted . ) |
| 17 | The degree of rejection of so-called common-mode signals is indicated by the common-mode rejection ratio which is just the ratio of the output signals obtained when a given input signal is applied first to one input only and then to both . |
| 18 | This last is just the principle of closure PC j mentioned above in the discussion of scepticism ( 1.2 ) . |
| 19 | We do n't do any astronomy in this department , but we teach an elementary astronomy course , and astronomy of course now is just the physics of outer space ; astronomy has stopped being a separate subject . |
| 20 | It is just the luck of the dice . |
| 21 | He is an accomplice , in the sense that everyone who joins another in decoding a linguistic sign co-operates with them in the establishment of its meaning ; but we can see that the sign Iago offers him is just the opposite of what Othello wants to believe , or has believed till now . |
| 22 | Not only have you achieved a real goal , well , almost , but from now on there will be no more excuses , no more ‘ false ceilings ’ for projects and ambitions — this is just the beginning of a very new and different life for you . |
| 23 | Detecting them is just the beginning of a process in which only slowly , and with considerable backsliding , one becomes aware of the multiple ways in which they manifest themselves as evasiveness , defensiveness , spikiness , apprehensiveness and so on . |
| 24 | It is all too easy to counterpose ‘ need ’ versus ‘ profit ’ as the criterion for production — in fact it is just the mirror-image of the apologetic proposition that production for profit is essentially the same thing as production for need . |
| 25 | She said she was ‘ not prepared to go to jail for that ungrateful woman ’ and told ANC intelligence officers : ‘ This is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 26 | I regard it as a way of living for the future , but what I feel I have learned so far is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 27 | Litter disfigures the countryside and contributes to pollution , but this is just the tip of the environmental iceberg . |
| 28 | What follows is just the tip of the legislative iceberg which has affected local government in the past few years . |
| 29 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 30 | Inpatient waiting times have long been the focus of attention , but for many patients waiting to be admitted to hospital is just the tip of a ‘ waiting iceberg . ’ |