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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A bit of companionship with fellow climbers and walkers is just the job at the end of a hard day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | UALITY David Walker is just four years through an eight year jail sentence for robbery . |
| 16 | The doctor is under no misapprehension that the real contest is just as tough . |
| 17 | Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and then Jasmine Flowers is in the corner , and then the salon is just at er it joins on to Jasmine Flowers . |
| 20 | The special-offer price to GH readers is just £29.99 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The final result is just as the simple quantity theory states , except that the monetarist view explains the process by reference to a stable demand for money function and an exogenously determined money stock which is under the control of the monetary authorities . |
| 28 | Some results fit the prediction very well ( e.g. if the numbers of offspring with red eyes is just three times the number with white eyes ) ; some fit it quite well ( e.g. if 61 have red eyes and 23 have white eyes ) , and some would fit it very badly ( e.g. if all but one had white eyes ) . |
| 29 | His reply is just about repeatable in this magazine : ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ big cars are for men with little dicks , and if I were to spend all my time polishing it , what would that make me ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone knows that the Liberal Club is just a name for people opposed to Klaus , ’ says a financial expert who shares the minister 's economic ideas . |