Example sentences of "[is] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's slim figure , small breasts , and pony tail haircut are those of an adolescent , while her pose , one foot at right angles to the other , is just a little away from the third position in classical Western ballet . |
| 2 | Most new actors have tremendous optimism , as indeed they must , for without belief in themselves training is just a huge waste of time . |
| 3 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 4 | For a physicalist , a mode of access is just a physical process , so any mode of access V enjoys should , if physicalism be true , be available to BS . |
| 5 | Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea . |
| 6 | But really it is just a reductio ad absurdum of the mental sentence view . |
| 7 | Some shielding from sum , wind and rain should be provided even if it is just a capping to the board , and the whole fixed on some sheltered wall . |
| 8 | In an allegedly animal-friendly society , where the rules for pets in public places are generally blurred and often very bad , it 's pleasing to put your head down on a strange pillow knowing your pet is just a pat away . |
| 9 | It might be objected that the doubleness is just a trick of Porfiry 's . |
| 10 | What falls less easily into place is the judgment about relative importance , urgency , contemporary relevance , nearness to reality ; because Raskolnikov comes over as a very grand and accessible conception , a nineteenth-century bohemian Hamlet was one way of putting it , whereas Verkhovensky is just a wrecker . |
| 11 | It could be said as brusquely of Iago that he is just a wrecker . |
| 12 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 13 | It needs to be remembered that the format is not primarily designed for printing on paper ; this is just a handy feature . |
| 14 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 15 | Piecemeal highlights are all very well , but viewers tend to be creatures of habit and , at present , a short burst of goals every Saturday night is just a tease ; an uninitiated visitor would never guess that football was the national game . |
| 16 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 17 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 18 | GDR is just a joke The ferment in East Germany is breeding a batch of jokes . |
| 19 | The German soldiers ' equivalent is just a mass of fat . |
| 20 | For most people , music is just a part of their leisure , although inevitably there are some who want more from it . |
| 21 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
| 22 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 23 | It is just a matter of lightly pushing the point of the hook into the skin of the boilie by about one eighth of an inch . |
| 24 | There always appears to be great competition for food on these waters and very often it is just a case of the more successful angler reducing the odds against catching the larger fish . |
| 25 | A dog is just a dog . |
| 26 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 27 | Where the Healey is a fairly civilised blend of high-speed tourer and sporting pedigree , comfortable enough for long-distance continental holidays as well as for Sunday afternoon thrashes through the countryside , the Cobra is just a beast . |
| 28 | The script , about a soldier taken out of the trenches not , as he fears , to be shot , but to organize an army concert party , is just a rudimentary framework within which to present a number of variety turns . |
| 29 | In striving for sobriety , his production is just a shade dry . |
| 30 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |