Example sentences of "was just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |
| 32 | Fears that Hamilton 's prospecting was just the thin end of the wedge were confirmed when the Government announced that many other sensitive blocks of sea bed around the Welsh coastline were being considered for licensing under its 14th Oil/Gas Round . |
| 33 | No , they ran across the top of the water and hammered desperately at the air with their wings and then , just when it was obvious they were n't going to achieve anything , they suddenly did ; the water dropped away and there was just the slow creak of wings pulling the goose up into the sky . |
| 34 | I think we did speak about that , the offie but mostly it was just the little house , outside Mhm . |
| 35 | the rest of it was just the original house , you know , it was a beautiful place , why they pulled it down |
| 36 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 37 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 38 | Her treatment of me was just the old game with the affectionate part left out . |