Example sentences of "this [be] just a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But guitarist Paul Laventhol explained , prior to the gig : ‘ This is just a one-off , because we had so many people wanting us to get together for a show . |
| 32 | The immediate cause might be a new lover , or the pursuit of her career , but usually this is just a trigger ; the eruptive force is far stronger than that . |
| 33 | In context this is just a reply to Pippin 's remark that the song ‘ does not sound altogether encouraging ’ . |
| 34 | but that 's in Aran and this is just a double knit but |
| 35 | This is just a waste of time . |
| 36 | Instrumental theorists ultimately conclude that while the state may have a degree of political neutrality , this is just a sham to mask the dominance of the state by the interests of the dominant class . |
| 37 | ( Note that the terms ‘ solution ’ and ‘ dissolution ’ are used widely in discussions of karst landforms , but this is just a form of shorthand since , as was discussed in Section 6.2.3.3 , limestone weathering involves complex chemical reactions . ) |
| 38 | ‘ This is just a car ’ . |
| 39 | This is just a sort of first list , the one thing erm you were going to ask Jimmy ? |
| 40 | Erm now it , it 's interesting to point out that female choice and of course one of the best examples of that is birds where the female chooses not , you saw it on the film , but this is just a reminder . |
| 41 | This is just an excuse for him to walk |
| 42 | And , of course , I mean , we have , have to remember , that when we talk about ageing altruism , this is just an abstraction . |
| 43 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 44 | And there is n't really an answer , this is just an assumption that it was . |
| 45 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |
| 46 | Well , of course , Darwin really had no answer to that and today we today we do because nowadays we know how evolution works , and erm what we now know that Darwin did not know , is that the genetic code is based , this is just an illustration from a standard book , you can find this in more or less any , any book . |
| 47 | This is just an actor playing a part . |
| 48 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 49 | He did a load of different experiments , this is just an example of one of them . |
| 50 | Yes that 's hello this is just an article that we went through last tutorial adjustment developing countries . |
| 51 | ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 52 | well they are now , my daughter now has a proper bum bag , but this was just a school , purse for school , just for break time . |
| 53 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 54 | I warned you this was just a fling |
| 55 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 56 | This was just a warning . |
| 57 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 58 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |
| 59 | This was just a back seat and very determined to stay that way . |
| 60 | This was just a continuation of the baseline . |