Example sentences of "[noun] [is] just " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Perhaps we 're all wrong about Mons. Perhaps Napoleon is just swinging open the front doors and ignoring the back gate . ’
2 As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion .
3 There , raggamuffin rules and Tuff Gong is just a part of the dollar-hoover tourist industry .
4 What is more , the experimental results that have been taken to demonstrate that retrieval plays a part in latent inhibition can not demonstrate this failure to be the sole source of the effect — these experiments show that a CS-US association is indeed formed after latent inhibition training and can be revealed if the conditions of testing are appropriate ; they do not show convincingly that the association is just as strong as that formed in subjects given no pre-exposure to the target stimulus .
5 For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road .
6 Epsilon Cephei is just in the × 7 field with Beta Lacertæ ( 4.4 ) .
7 As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain .
8 Then she thought : But he 's only here because Bert is just through that wall there .
9 Moreton 's son is 11 , Furley 's just two .
10 Jeff 's just a little late in calling , that 's all . ’
11 If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered .
12 The CTP proclaims that the link between the perceived object and the perception is just an ordinary bit of the great causal nexus of nature ( it needs to believe this , as we shall see presently ) and yet it is prepared to accept that this segment of the chain has a rather privileged status ; at the very least , that it has a beginning and an end .
13 In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme .
14 A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day .
15 Situated in Aldwark village on the banks of the River Ure , Aldwark Manor is just 15 miles from York and ideally situated for touring the Yorkshire Dales and moors .
16 The one Miss Thorne had chosen was Rudyard Kipling 's Just So Stories .
17 Decorating your Christmas tree with chains made up of red chillies is just one of the original ideas in the company 's seasonal title Malcolm Hillier 's Christmas ( Price : £12.99 ) .
18 UALITY David Walker is just four years through an eight year jail sentence for robbery .
19 The doctor is under no misapprehension that the real contest is just as tough .
20 Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design .
21 Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act .
22 and then Jasmine Flowers is in the corner , and then the salon is just at er it joins on to Jasmine Flowers .
23 The special-offer price to GH readers is just £29.99 .
24 It is almost as though they ‘ want ’ to slot together in a particular way , but this illusion is just an inadvertent consequence of their properties .
25 Thus if a bailee negligently allows goods in his charge to be destroyed the plaintiff 's loss is just the same as if the bailee had wrongfully sold them to a third party but there is no conversion because the negligent ( as opposed to deliberate ) destruction is not an assertion of any rights in the goods .
26 The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway .
27 TOP Devon Loch ( black cap ) swings over second Becher 's just behind E.S.B. and the falling Sundew .
28 For those unfamiliar with the latest manifestation of Sodom and Gomorrah stateside , AIDS is just what its name says : a collection of illnesses which invade the bodies of people whose immune systems can no longer cope .
29 Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues .
30 I was , I recall , leaving the drawing room with an empty teapot in my hand when Miss Kenton stopped me and said : ‘ Mr Stevens , Dr Meredith is just leaving now . ’
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