Example sentences of "was just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
| 2 | My brother-in-law the councillor said nothing , just stood looking down at her ; and in his eyes was just the right mixture of kindliness and a sort of authority ; and something else — a twinkle , a you-and-me-having-a-little-joke-together look . |
| 3 | With three blocks removed , it was just the right length for riding on at one end and off at the other . |
| 4 | By contrast with both of these other planets , the Earth was just the right distance from the Sun . |
| 5 | In no time at all , the fire was blazing cheerfully , the curtains were drawn against the night , and Beth was pouring the water from the kettle into the bath ; a spill of cold water from the ewer , then another drop from the kettle , and the water was just the right temperature , the warm steam rising nicely and filling the room with a comfortable warm smell . |
| 6 | Set in the centre of the altar stone 's upper surface was a small depression that was just the right size for a normal-sized version of the device . |
| 7 | It was just the right touch . |
| 8 | It was just the right length to stretch taut , pulling the leg slightly back . |
| 9 | The wall was just the right height for the dog to make a leap and bark into the ear of the passers by . |
| 10 | The house was just the right size for us ; downstairs , an entrance hall , four rooms , a kitchen and a servants hall ; upstairs , six bedrooms and an attic . |
| 11 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 12 | It was just the middle period that Barnsley , fuelled by the goal , were on top . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it was just the usual look of her rather weird eyes . |
| 14 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 15 | Jacqui was just the frayed end of an otherwise completed pattern and it was with reluctance that he dialled his own number . |
| 16 | No it was just the round circle and that was twelv |
| 17 | There was just the summer-shrunken stream from which a pale mist drifted to lie in shadowy skeins across the plump fields of wheat and rye and barley . |
| 18 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 19 | It came from his left , near by , and he looked there and found that Slorne was just the other side of the bars from him and she was looking at him . |
| 20 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 21 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 22 | It 's not er racial or something like that it was just the general standard of the people which has so much changed . |
| 23 | There was just the clumsy pushing , prodding . |
| 24 | He was just the hired thug . |
| 25 | With London , he says , the 15-man game was just the natural one to play when there were backs of the calibre of Harriman available . |
| 26 | No , Guy Sterne was just the wrong man to want . |
| 27 | Th we th , I think at that time it was just the done thing , you hand out tranquillizers , erm but I found it a , a really bad experience |
| 28 | It was just the wretched sort of life that might so easily be theirs : the cramped lodgings , the worry , the sense of wearing yourself out against life … |
| 29 | Some said the facilities were no better than when it was just the plain Milton Keynes Bowl , for many it was still worth the travel , the wait , the time to see Bruce . |
| 30 | The coupling constant in both theories was just the electric charge , e ; weak interactions were weak and of short range simply because M w turns out to be so large . |