Example sentences of "just a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , just a shabby backwater in Belsize Park , but a nice , quiet area where a woman alone might walk down to the corner shop at midnight in safety and people minded their own business . |
| 2 | A good sommelier or restaurant manager can persuade the customer to choose a super bottle of wine which offers marvellous value and drinks perfectly , rather than just a grand name in a superlative vintage which , inevitably , will have a premium attached to it . |
| 3 | ALYSON WILLIAMS ‘ Alyson Williams ’ second from the fierce US soulwoman , with which she plans to prove that she is ‘ more than just a loud broad in a loud hat ! ’ |
| 4 | The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success . |
| 5 | Or was he intending for his debut feature to have just a limited run in a few European art houses ? |
| 6 | Erm we were on patrol , just a normal patrol in er in Belfast and unfortunately I lost my sight and two very good friends of mine were killed , and another was er blinded in one eye and severe injuries to his leg . |
| 7 | There was just a slight chink in her armour and he pressed a little further . |
| 8 | Embankments can vary considerably in size ; many cater for just a slight change in the level of the ground . |
| 9 | He succeeded and was left with just a slight hesitation in speech . |
| 10 | The seven-plus immediately came under renewed fire after the results showed just a slight improvement in spelling , reading and maths and a 12 per cent drop in writing skills since the tests were first held last year . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just a small celebration in honour of the fact that it 's six years to the day tomorrow since Filippo and I met — ’ She broke off and giggled . |
| 12 | When she woke up that morning , with just a small hope in the corner of her heart , she found Patsy already awake , sitting upright in the old cot they still shared , his dark brown eyes shining with excitement from under his mop of brown hair . |
| 13 | True , she was important back home , while here she was just a small cog in the wheel of Samana life . |
| 14 | The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ( MASSMoCA ) may be just a red-brick castle in the western New England sky , but locals hope the grand initiative will one day bring prosperity to this economically depressed mill town . |
| 15 | Oddly enough there were apparently no supervisors : just a young man in a glass booth who occasionally changed the printer ribbons on the computers . |
| 16 | This is not a poll , just a personal interest in how my selected team ( not posted here ) matches up with yours . |
| 17 | And one of my er had a , a just a tiny flaw in it . |
| 18 | ‘ He was an economist but he is now just a weak figure in a row which includes doctors , farmers , plumbers and painters — all equal in their misery . ’ |
| 19 | No feet picked up , just a slovenly shuffle in the snow … as if they knew that their scraping passage festered in the mind of the Major . |
| 20 | Perhaps some final confirmation that mankind itself was ineradicably corrupt , that life was indeed just a gaudy nightmare in the head of an imbecile ? |
| 21 | Just a wet walker in a woollen hat , eating a cheese sandwich in the rain . |
| 22 | It was nothing serious , she knew that , just a bad bruise in need of cleaning , and the last person in the world she wanted to do the cleaning was him . |
| 23 | Somebody will come and take my wonderful god away — not a god any more , just a brown ferret in a box . |
| 24 | Not a bad game in the circumstances but just a preliminary skirmish in World Cup terms . |
| 25 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
| 26 | Er , you can see that this is a I do n't know whether , it appears to be darker at the centre than it is round the edges , I do n't know whether you tried to burn it in just a little bit in the middle , holding back the edges , but it 's , it 's got sort of a darkish patch i in the centre . |
| 27 | Just a little bit in the corner . |
| 28 | ‘ But Woil ! ’ said Kraal with just a little admiration in his voice . |
| 29 | ‘ Just a little hiccup in our usual wonderful service , ’ he said . |
| 30 | And if you find that sprinkling on just a little bran in no way detracts from your bowl of breakfast cereal , then you will be tempted to continue to do so . |