Example sentences of "be just a [noun sg] [conj] " 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 | They think I am just a burden and they want grandchildren to look after them when they get old . |
| 3 | But there are just a couple that — ’ |
| 4 | He says that most of those years are just a blur but he finds it hard to forget that he was locked in a secure ward for the seriously mentally ill for two weeks . |
| 5 | " You 're just a nuisance and I 've got to find something to do with you , horse-thief though you be . " |
| 6 | ‘ Can it be just a coincidence that this tape is alleged to have been recorded just two weeks before the Diana tape ? ’ |
| 7 | For a bird , an alarm call may be just a whistle and always that whistle . |
| 8 | Anyhow , I 'm not a film director , I 'm just a mother and a very concerned member of the world in which my three children are forced to live and grow up in . |
| 9 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 10 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 11 | It is just a year since Nicola disappeared , leaving behind a baby and a boyfriend . |
| 12 | However , says ASB project director Janie Crichton , the standard ‘ does have a philosophy of its own — it is just a philosophy that tends to coincide with the Act ’ . |
| 13 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 14 | This is just a whim but it is great fun . |
| 15 | It is just a decision that two grown up people have come to . ’ |
| 16 | The eye is basically the same shape as ours , but there is no lens and the pupil is just a hole that lets the seawater into the hollow interior of the eye . |
| 17 | A third possibility that should not be overlooked is that the stereotype is just a stereotype and has no real correlate in women 's behaviour . |
| 18 | Sometimes you can be exhilarated , believing that the painting is a masterpiece or , alternatively , a look in the mirror may tell you that it is just a jumble and the eye does n't focus anywhere . |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever happens in the Arc she is just a star and she is the one they 've all got to beat , ’ declares George . |
| 20 | The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday . |
| 21 | The boar with a flower in his mouth is just a conceit and an obsession . |
| 22 | At the end of the article he writes : ‘ We may say , if we like , that the introspected mind is just a body and its goings on as they appear to the body in question and not to anybody else . |
| 23 | With City-based firms , there 's no problem because their employees realise a share is just a commodity and they can go and sell it and realise some cash . |
| 24 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 25 | And there is n't really an answer , this is just an assumption that it was . |
| 26 | Yes that 's hello this is just an article that we went through last tutorial adjustment developing countries . |
| 27 | Like you say , it 's just a laugh as well . |
| 28 | Sometimes she holds onto my arm in the street — you know , just natural , like I 'm a girl and she 's just a friend or summat . |
| 29 | All sounds the same , it 's just a noise and you know , you ca n't th the words ! |
| 30 | That 's just a T-shirt and this |