Example sentences of "[be] just the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films .
2 ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing .
3 Sometimes the seated guests are just the closest family and friends , while other friends , children , neighbours and colleagues from work are invited for the dancing and party later in the day .
4 Minimum premiums are just the smallest amount that Abbey as a company can make a profit on .
5 4 Danny packs oranges that are just the right size so he can get 38 in a box .
6 You 're just the whipping boy .
7 NORWEGIAN international Tore Dahlum could be just the first addition to Manchester United 's staff as manager Alex Ferguson seeks a goalscoring hero to revive their Premier League title prospects .
8 Whereas it used to be just the blonde stereotype , now it 's changed to become more exotic , interesting or diverse .
9 From what you 've told me , your mother sounds as if she might be just the right person for the job . ’
10 The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs .
11 ‘ He 'd like Giles to get married and thinks you 'd be just the right girl for him . ’
12 But if you 're prepared to take the risk of equity investment for the reward of a tax-free return , a PEP could be just the right route for you .
13 The planets and moons that do remain within this range have to be just the right distance from the right size of star , and should also be spinning , otherwise the side facing the star becomes extremely hot , and the other side extremely cold .
14 ‘ The fish market would be just the right setting for Fabbiano 's designs , but no one 's going to say so . ’
15 But on the other hand , as much as Novell might be just the right tug boat to guide Unix to safe harbour , much of the industry 's optimism stems from the fact that Unix is no longer in AT&T 's hands .
16 She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her .
17 I 'm just the hired help and if I 'm still hired , I 'll find out how they 're doing it . ’
18 ‘ I 'm just the same size I 've always been , Mum .
19 And what I hate even more is the thought that I 'm just the next number on your list .
20 And erm I suppose it would make it would be a lot more logical if all the blinds were just the same price all the time .
21 ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely .
22 I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that .
23 Of course , if conventionalism were just the semantic theory that the phrase " legal rights " should not be used to describe rights people have in virtue of consistency in principle , then a conventionalist judge could indeed take a lively interest in that form of consistency under a different description .
24 We now know that erm that the genetics is based upon a an organic polymer called D N A , short for acid , a polymer is just the one molecule with repeating making long in principle .
25 No sewage outfall is just the other side of the Power Station , that 's where it is .
26 lives at Foreham which is just the other side of .
27 Ungermann says that all of its future products will support Virtual Network Architecture , and that the DragonSwitch is just the first product in a family named after the mythical reptile .
28 This model is complex , but is just the first step in explaining the development of schizophrenia .
29 This function d is just the usual distance between any two places .
30 ‘ This is just the analogue copy .
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