Example sentences of "but [adj] [be] just the " in BNC.
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1 | But that 's just the start ; counts of 200 are not uncommon and in summer 1984 the pollen count in central London reached a record 820 . |
2 | But that 's just the easy explanation . |
3 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
4 | But that 's just the sort of costly stunt that the unconventional Richard Branson attempts when he 's not at the helm of his two highly successful businesses , music group Virgin and airline Virgin Atlantic . |
5 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the Earth 's gravity . |
6 | Poor man — I do n't know what he thought about me , but that 's just the way it happened . |
7 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the point , that 's just the brilliance of it . |
8 | But that 's just the nature of the beast of , of the fact he had fifteen minutes , it 's , it 's only an observation really . |
9 | Well that 's what it says , or microwave it , but that 's just the same |
10 | But that 's just the way they 'd rather be . |
11 | But you see I find this discussion slightly difficult to deal with because on the one hand you 're saying yes , the exclusion clauses in the policy reduce the scope of your liability quite dramatically , and on the other hand you 're saying but that 's just the words in practice we behave quite differently . |
12 | But that is just the start . ’ |
13 | Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning . |
14 | But that is just the tip of the iceberg . |
15 | Still to come , Oxford 's Ice Hockey team , the Spire Oxford City Stars , ar runners up in the autumn cup , but that is just the start . |
16 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
17 | She wanted to dine with him , of course she did — but that was just the trouble . |
18 | Litter disfigures the countryside and contributes to pollution , but this is just the tip of the environmental iceberg . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | There is a selection of books listed at the end of this book , but this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
21 | But this is just the mirror image of the bourgeois view that whenever workers take a militant stance this must be due to manipulation by agitators , and again does not reflect people 's considered judgement . |
22 | But this is just the beginning . |