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

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1 Erm now if you lose one of those people cos we we put a lot of emphasis on you know , high quality training , erm then that money is just wasted .
2 ‘ The disciplined use of decorative devices demands proper consideration of their function , ’ he emphasizes , ‘ even if or perhaps especially if that function is just to be eye-catching .
3 The County Council is providing free counselling sessions for anyone who decides that smoking 's just too much of a fag .
4 It may be that Creole is just more visible , more public in the years fourteen to seventeen , say .
5 And to think of George Birkitt in that light was just ridiculous .
6 In 1990 , however , that figure was just 3% .
7 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to preserve the integrity of Croatia is to work for a permanent settlement after a lasting ceasefire , and that recognition is just one of the issues that has to be sorted out before there can be a successful conclusion ?
8 so if that run is just tomorrow then we just got in did n't we ?
9 I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality .
10 Government bonds now yield 4.5% , not a bad return given that inflation is just over 1% and the yield on shares just under it .
11 Tha that gentleman 's just on the table for me and er the lesson is being recorded .
12 I think all that stuff is just lying down in the face of the mass media .
13 In films , an actor may present a degraded or violent character , but that character is just one element in a complex tableau , and will be judged in context ; whereas a song will often be seen as a personal statement from the singer .
14 The rest of that day was just awful .
15 Erm although we we have n't really really discussed this , I suspect that given the the scale of development proposed in in Selby District , it 's it 's quite likely on the basis of what I 've heard from Mr , that Leeds are going to raise objections to development on on the western side of Selby District generally because that that area is just as close to Leeds .
16 A need for new policies in that area was just beginning to become apparent at the end of the century , as scientific surveys and journalistic investigations charted the existence of severe problems of poverty caused by factors , in particular sickness and old age , largely outside individual control .
17 That helmet is just the right size and shape to have inflicted the blow we saw .
18 Well Carolyn 's here tomorrow Geoff to show that age is just a state of mind .
19 That beast is just waiting for his chance .
20 Fucking hell that dress is that dress is just so you look at my tits and my crap figure .
21 That farm 's just like a weekend in Palm Springs — a great place to get in shape .
22 Not only do we not talk about death , but we do everything we can to hide it from view and pretend that mortality is just a myth .
23 The failure of such experiments to demonstrate any effect of homoeopathic remedies is therefore just as likely to be due to inappropriate remedy selection for the model under study as to the possibility that the remedy really is inactive , or that homoeopathy is just a load of fantasy , wishful thinking and mumbo jumbo .
24 The brochure goes on to plead that prostitution is just a natural part of Thailand 's culture : ‘ You have to pay from women in Bangkok — for one night , for one week or for your whole life .
25 It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible .
26 Look how that flower is just a little bit of wire hovering over her hat . ’
27 Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat
28 Not because of the article — that idea was just something to get him moving-but because he wanted to know .
29 That meant that there were other players in the game , that Myeloski was just as much under threat as he was .
30 But any engineer can recognize an object that has been designed , even poorly designed , for a purpose , and he can usually work out what that purpose is just by looking at the structure of the object .
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