Example sentences of "be just [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 2 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 3 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 4 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 5 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 6 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 7 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 8 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 9 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 10 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 11 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 12 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 13 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 14 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 15 | It might even have been just another sound effect . |
| 16 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 17 | There have been just three winners for the stable to cheer home so far this season . |
| 18 | The electric field is always in the radial direction , so the field lines are just straight lines as shown in Fig. 2.2 . |
| 19 | Often the differences between watercolour , gouache , poster and acrylic paints are not well-defined , some paintings described as watercolours are just water-based paintings . |
| 20 | They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs . |
| 21 | If only six national newspapers ( the Sun , Daily Mirror , Star , Daily Mail , The Times and Guardian ) are examined , there are just eighteen cases which get coverage in more than three of these newspapers . |
| 22 | Thus , according to our definitions , unc whilst unc and so , unless unc and unc are just other names for 3 and 1 w are in the intolerable situation that a sum or product of two classes depends not only on which the classes are but also on what we choose to call them ! |
| 23 | These Tans are just hired killers . |
| 24 | ‘ These numbers are just broad descriptions . |
| 25 | In practice , they are just ordinary people who for some reason — and the reason is often accidental — have become involved with the mentally handicapped . |
| 26 | Patients are just ordinary people , after all . |
| 27 | Of course , pseudo scientific claims also make great advertising copy — that 's not to say these products are just clever gimmicks . |
| 28 | Some may think that these are just nice debating points , and that they bear little relationship to what actually happens . |
| 29 | The lean ecology here means the entire 150 years of diatom layers are just 5 cm deep . |
| 30 | They are the subject of an intensive release programme in central Wales where there are just 70 breeding pairs . |