Example sentences of "[be] [adv] just an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is effectively just an ordinary 18-pin d.i.l. encapsulation , but with the middle six pins absent . |
| 2 | He said that that is not just an early priority but an immediate one . |
| 3 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 4 | It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives . |
| 5 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 6 | Yet Hungary is not just an obedient stalking horse . |
| 7 | One way a visiting alien would be able to tell that the male/female difference is not just an insignificant human variation is by observing how obsessively , how incessantly we talk about it . |
| 8 | Against this Althusser maintains that time , even chronological time , is not just an empirical entity , but a concept ; that though history may be articulated in general with chronological time , each history has its own temporality , which can only be found by establishing the conceptual nexus of the history in question . |
| 9 | It is not just an automatic reflection of gender . |
| 10 | This is not just an arbitrary theory of schooling which they have dreamed up , but derives from their perception that they have been ‘ written off ’ . |
| 11 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 12 | But the plan is not just an ideal for those who do not drive or are frustrated when trying to do so . |
| 13 | As Neil Richardson noted in 1980 , ‘ An old town pub is not just an attractive Victorian or Georgian facade , it is a building which is still being used for the purpose for which it was built . |
| 14 | Beyond that , it seems now the only way forward in a situation of very general and dangerous unsettlement , where the taking of direct responsibility is not just an attractive idea but probably the only means of Survival . |
| 15 | This is not just an academic concern but part of the work of understanding how and when capitalism will change and be overcome . |
| 16 | This is not just an academic matter — it affects practice , for example in the arts . |
| 17 | It is important , as Christians , to link modernisms with our lifestyles and economic systems , because the crisis of modernity is not just an isolated problem of wrong philosophies or false doctrines , it is also a crisis of wrongdoing and crass social values . |
| 18 | Privacy is not just an important legal tradition — it is also a good crime deterrent . |
| 19 | Listening is not just an important communication skill . |
| 20 | This is not just an historical curiosity , although for much of the fifth century Sparta and Persia had no attested dealings . |
| 21 | ‘ The success of the experiment at Snowshill proves that organic gardening is not just an eccentric alternative ; it can also produce better results ’ |
| 22 | But the success of the experiment at Snowshill shows that organic gardening is not just an eccentric alternative ; it can also produce better results . |
| 23 | It 's a rolling dynamic plan it 's not just an annual plan and it 's updated hopefully on a fairly regular basis . |
| 24 | It 's not just an aesthetic matter , it 's practical as well . |
| 25 | He always thought of it as some kind of converted dungeon , but he sees now , with a wry smile , that it 's really just an ordinary suburban house . |
| 26 | It is difficult for many to appreciate that it is now just an average ‘ industrialized country ’ . |
| 27 | But ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ is n't just an acoustic album , as tracks like Countdown and Do n't Look Down illustrate . |
| 28 | The Prussian state , as often noted , was not just an external entity , but an entity profoundly incorporated into the consciousness of individual Germans . |
| 29 | This was not just an old man 's hatred of change ; the sonnet Steamboats , Viaducts , and Railways ( 1833 ) is surprisingly in favour of these evidences of man 's ability , and concludes : |
| 30 | Overcrowding was not just an urban problem . |