Example sentences of "just a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I meant just a judgement in general ! ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ stope ’ , or place from which the rock is dug , becomes , at the end of the operation , just a cavity in the rockface , at which point it becomes a ‘ gunnis ’ . |
| 3 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 4 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 5 | This disagreement between the different schools of thought is more than just a storm in an academic teacup . |
| 6 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 7 | Our inflation view may be more bearish than most , but was supported by the Chancellor at Mansion House , when he said : ‘ Some people insist that movements in the exchange rate are just a change in relative prices which need not affect the rate of inflation . |
| 8 | A mutant gene in a beaver is just a change in one letter of the billion-letter text ; a change in a particular gene G. As the young beaver grows , the change is copied , together with all the other letters in the text , into all the beaver 's cells . |
| 9 | Erm it 's just a change in erm atmosphere in the house . |
| 10 | This is interesting since Peavey did n't even start business until 1965 ; Hartley was just a kid in 1957 . |
| 11 | There was no explosive activity , no eruption column , just a crack in the ground opening up , and a few pungent blue sulphurous fumes . |
| 12 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 13 | We kept him in view until he was just a speck in the distance . |
| 14 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 15 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 16 | Getting Neighbours was , as far as I was concerned , just a foot in the acting door . ’ |
| 17 | He was invisible here , just a man in a strange suit and a funny accent . |
| 18 | I am just a man in love . ’ |
| 19 | We probably wo n't get anywhere with this because the law sees me as just a man in a dress which is wrong |
| 20 | They slept under just a blanket in the mouth of a cave while we needed hot water bottles in our sleeping bags . |
| 21 | If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once . |
| 22 | it 's just a bit in the air , but you can tell it 's going a bit damp now anyway |
| 23 | It was just a bit in The Echo cos they 're all about here and |
| 24 | Not just a delay in glass , he wrote , but glass as mirror of delay . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just a back-up in case you get stuck . |
| 26 | Otherwise the , the little bulb is just a screw in affair . |
| 27 | But , in 1984 , 1 had one of these crash courses of methadone , 14 days , which was just a piss in the can . |
| 28 | MIKE HOOPER is hoping his surprise European Cup Winners ' Cup call-up on Wednesday night is not just a flash in the pan . |
| 29 | Like Walker , Gould is adamant that his team 's form is n't just a flash in the pan . |
| 30 | ‘ If we slip up and drop into mid-table , people will say that our start to the season was just a flash in the pan . |