Example sentences of "was just [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 I soon found , however , that their grumpiness was just part of the Parisienne package , and indeed it often vanishes on closer acquaintance .
2 Liberalizing emigration was just part of Ceauşescu 's strategy to gain acceptance in the West and thereby access to its storehouses of wealth , technology and industrial secrets .
3 The palace complex was just part of the Conducator 's plans to transform Romania as a whole .
4 Although she remembered the words perfectly well , Constance merely said , ‘ Oh , nothing , it was just part of your general racket . ’
5 For Camus the beauty of the women was just part of the rapturous wealth heaped on the senses here .
6 It was just part of life . ’
7 ‘ He said Jack was just part of the system ! ’
8 It was just part of the routine .
9 It was just part of our tradition . "
10 ‘ It was just part of the job , ’ says a phlegmatic Ruscoe .
11 Mhm , that was just part of the job then
12 Now , if the moon was just part of the earth the moon 's gravity would be adding to the earth and then there would be generally more gravity all round .
13 A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there .
14 By the early twentieth century the focus of activity was just west of the River Trent , especially in the area between Doncaster and Nottingham ( Griffin , 1977 ) .
15 BSM was just kind of … there .
16 So it was just kind of what ever enthusiasm there was washed away with that .
17 If you do n't believe in religion , you might think that er , the world was just kind of here for no particular reason , and er , that human existence was just a kind of accident or something happen happened , and er , has no has no greater significance .
18 And so the book was just kind of , ignored I think , and left standing , and now it 's out of print , and we 've discovered this week , it 's not even in the university library .
19 I do n't care what it was , it was just kind of , you know , a story that they might know .
20 The area north of Bedford House , which itself was just north of the Green , consisted of orchard and market garden land , so Mr. Carr 's idea led to the area of Bedford Park becoming known as the first Garden Suburb , with three principal architects designing the buildings , Norman Shaw , E.W. Godwin and E.T .
21 ‘ It could have been nasty but in the end I think it was just case of exchanging insurance details , ’ said Insp Madison .
22 He concluded that the northern limit of totality was just south of his location .
23 ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’
24 Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child .
25 Yeah well why that happened , Oh I think it was just pressure of work you know , she had so much else to do .
26 And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top .
27 because , you come back here and all the Scottish women were vast and they lost their figure 's and it was just sort of almost taken for granted that you have a baby and you loose your figure , but you do n't mind because you 've got the children .
28 No but I was just sort of testing you out to see , you know , how you reacted .
29 was just sort of setting all up for yourself to fail really .
30 Er it was hardly ever er a mother was just sort of given something to ease the pain .
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