Example sentences of "[prep] be just " in BNC.
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| 1 | the one I was after is just called Cher |
| 2 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
| 3 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 4 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 5 | No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not . |
| 6 | ‘ Amaranth Wilikins , 26 , is tired of being just a housewife , ’ read the caption . |
| 7 | If all your essay consisted of was just a series of assertions , there would be little connection or development between the parts : there would be no argument . |
| 8 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 9 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 10 | An example is provided by Rome in the late fourth and third centuries BC , the period which saw Rome emerge from being just one of the cities in Italy to become the conqueror of Carthage and a principal power in the ancient world . |
| 11 | He also instructed those around him in these arts , and was far from being just a powerful military ruler . |
| 12 | He undergoes a personality change , from being just ‘ one of the others ’ at home in Yorkshire , to being show jumping 's superstar . |
| 13 | We would argue that far from being just another fashionable initiative it should be seen as a strategy for delivering significant partnership objectives . |
| 14 | She lost 7lbs ( 3.2kg ) more , and from being just ‘ slimmer ’ , Stephanie 's body became curvaceous and beautifully toned . |
| 15 | All this shows that Attica was far from being just a city with territory round it , but was a compromise between a centralized state and a federal one . |
| 16 | Far from being just the confluence of two solitary corporeal entities , sex represents a state of the deepest , most needed fusion in which the whole being can realize itself . |
| 17 | Of course Castro 's stand , far from being just one of principle , was an attempt to enforce his claims on the Soviet Union at a time when the security of his revolution had never been more seriously threatened . |
| 18 | Somehow at that moment he was very far from being just part of the furniture . |
| 19 | Many of the actions performed by many women , according to the misogynists he likes to write about , are performed by many men , and many ugly people would appear to be just as happy , and just as emotionally fulfilled , as many lovely ones . |
| 20 | If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower . |
| 21 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 22 | But the undertone was exceedingly fragile , with many traders prepared to bank on the FT-SE falling below 2,200 points in the next few weeks unless the 15 per cent rates do turn out to be just a short-lived shock . |
| 23 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
| 24 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 25 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 26 | It 's a severe test , for two people to be just on their own . |
| 27 | I should n't have been content to be just a wife . ’ |
| 28 | At all events , she should not be left alone to be just herself . |
| 29 | Either the top or the bottom step would need to be just one sleeper high , to give a total rise of 2ft 6in ( 75cm ) . |
| 30 | In Paris tomorrow , I am meeting my French and Italian opposite numbers , whoever they turn out to be just now . |