Example sentences of "be just [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 3 | Or had all his compliments and charm , so convincing at the time , been just a charade to get him what he wanted ? |
| 4 | The single , simple action was all it took to move what had once been just a concept into the final stage of action . |
| 5 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 6 | But poverty had been just a word , an image on a screen — until now . |
| 7 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 8 | ‘ Tony 's always been just a friend to me , ’ she said , smiling . |
| 9 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming , he said . |
| 10 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 11 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 12 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 13 | The chilli also meant that Praeger had been just a wire man with orders not to kill anybody who came at him just blind them and run . |
| 14 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 15 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 16 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |
| 17 | For Goodman , Haynes would have been just the kind of dynamic figure beloved of the Labour Government during its expansive tea-with-the-Beatles phase . |
| 18 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 19 | And for one veteran , from Cinderford in the Forest of Dean , the excitement of coming to London had been just the start of an amazing day . |
| 20 | The Norway disaster had been just an appetizer , it would seem . |
| 21 | Thucydides ( ii.22 ) says that Pericles , as general in 431 , ‘ did not summon the Assembly ’ , and though this may have been just an exercise of personal authority , there is another passage ( iv . |
| 22 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 23 | But she knew it had been just an impulse — a ‘ strawberry kiss ’ , he 'd called it . |
| 24 | I am just a man in love . ’ |
| 25 | I am just a hireling . |
| 26 | I am just a football nut who spends thousands of pounds travelling to watch games . ’ |
| 27 | I am just a tourist here on vacation . ’ |
| 28 | They think I am just a burden and they want grandchildren to look after them when they get old . |
| 29 | ‘ Now you know , Master Corbett , why I am just a messenger . |
| 30 | I am just a sailor . |