Example sentences of "it [be] just [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’
2 Or , if it axed Neil Kinnock , junked Clause 4 , cut the trade union links and purged the remaining socialists , might it have a chance — or would it be just the old SDP ?
3 Now sir , can you tell me this , ’ and she looked him straight in the eyes , ‘ will it be just the same for him as if you had baptized him ? ’
4 There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China .
5 Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light .
6 ‘ If only it were just a story . ’
7 His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap .
8 Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it .
9 It were just a labouring job .
10 So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months .
11 You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of .
12 And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned .
13 ‘ An ’ it were just the same then .
14 Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down .
15 Er er it were just the same on a motorcycle the faster he 'll go the better they 'd like it !
16 It 's just no good , Rosie , ’ he continues .
17 No disrespect to the Bull & Gate , right , but it 's just no place for Kinky Machine to be hyperventilating their thang within .
18 It 's just no good !
19 But you would if you could , it 's just no one wants to sl
20 This is the mental adjustment that has to be made at Verdon — you start your route with several hundred metres already below you , but once you rationalise this it 's just a steep , very solid crag !
21 Once inside the auction room , it 's just a matter of crossing your fingers and hoping somebody takes a fancy to it , too .
22 Concentration spans are short at this age but , once commands are taught on a ‘ reward-for-getting-it-right/patience-not-punishment-for-getting-it-wrong ’ basis , it 's just a case of frequent practice .
23 It 's just a question of finding the right people to bring in and form a fashion-design group .
24 The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility .
25 It ai n't a door or nothing — it 's just a big gap in the wall .
26 It 's just a street and some old buildings — you know , for people to live in and that .
27 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 .
28 It 's just a matter of finding the money . ’
29 Even if it 's just a fantasy …
30 It 's just a field full o' vagabonds trying to scratch a living . ’
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