Example sentences of "this be just the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is just the icing on the cake . |
| 32 | But , as Peter immediately tells his father , this is just the sort of bon mot to expect from an idler who is being kept in the lap of luxury . |
| 33 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 34 | This is just the sort of thing that we were all afraid of . |
| 35 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 36 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 37 | Mr Chairman , it 's just , just the sort of reason why we did n't su did n't support spending eight thousand pounds on , on some low pay unit , this is just the sort of thing that we feel that , that Committee 's money should be spent on . |
| 38 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 39 | Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight , a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene . |
| 40 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 41 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 42 | Rubbish , she told herself crossly , this was just the shyness resulting from that stupid dream . |
| 43 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 44 | This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island . |
| 45 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 46 | This was just the ticket , I thought , sitting on my canvas chair , quietly digesting my cake . |
| 47 | WITH Justin Fashanu 's black tie do to look forward to on Saturday evening , this was just the result to put the Airdrie players in the party mood . |
| 48 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 49 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 50 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 51 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 52 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 53 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |