Example sentences of "just a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large diameter coils , glowing valves , brass fittings , large meters mounted in ebonite front panels , all evoke the atmosphere of the past and the article suggests ways of re-creating your own authentic or individual masterpiece — or maybe just a glorious Spiders ' Nest ! |
| 2 | MP and broadcasting expert Roger Gale said : ‘ I think it just a cheap journalists ' trick on behalf of The Sun to try to score points over their rivals . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm in the Flying Fox and I 've just spent some time hovering at just a thousand feet over Bicester and the town centre looking good there . |
| 4 | But this strip of superior vines is very thin , just a hundred metres in parts , as the communal boundary of Cramant hives off most of the vineyards . |
| 5 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 6 | He 'd tried to stop a truck which was loaded with stolen aluminium scrap worth just a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | Joe Asnett 's place is just a hundred yards up the road , and do n't open 'til seven . ’ |
| 8 | They went through Mill Hill Circus just a hundred yards behind the bleeper and up the slope to Five Ways Corner . |
| 9 | It was now just a hundred yards off our starboard bow . |
| 10 | There are no stairs , just a hundred yards of corridor . |
| 11 | And just a hundred yards away is the family home , where computer technician Dennis Garvey lived with family until last May . |
| 12 | The accident happened in heavy rain on the A 424 , three miles north of Burford , just a hundred yards from the spot where a couple were killed in December after their car was in a collision with a coach . |
| 13 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |
| 14 | It is just a hundred years since Felix Liebermann first propounded the theory that Anselm 's friendship with Archbishop Hugh of Lyons brought a new element into his life . |
| 15 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |
| 16 | And it was just a hundred degrees ? |
| 17 | It 's just a million pounds and more . |
| 18 | Off just a four pounds higher mark , he looks a value bet in a race where the top three are strongly fancied but look likely to struggle giving away so much weight . |
| 19 | Councillor Sandra Plummer from Camden and the Socialist Lesbian Group , speaking in one of the plenary sessions , argued that socialists have got to stop seeing lesbian liberation as just a civil liberties issue . |
| 20 | That 's just a wee nodules on your kneecap , . |
| 21 | Who can say whether the ambitious executive , brimming with ideas today , will be a suitable candidate for management tomorrow — or likely to remain just a great ideas person ? ’ |
| 22 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 23 | Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes . |
| 24 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 25 | We would suggest that the extreme sensitivity to self that characterizes adolescents is not just a psychological phenomena , but a social one to be understood in terms of moral career . |
| 26 | ICI , evidently , was not just a lacklustre chemicals conglomerate , but an industrial symbol , to be preserved at all costs as evidence of Britain 's continuing economic virility . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir Thomas was just a public relations front . |
| 28 | It was no big deal , just a few chickens , a couple of rabbits , hamsters , gerbils and a donkey . ’ |
| 29 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 30 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |