Example sentences of "just an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is sexist language just an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women , as nonentities and scapegoats ? |
| 2 | It is far more than just an accidental entrance to your home . |
| 3 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
| 4 | Yeah that 's just an updated list of , of project people because some people have changed their titles and , and some people have |
| 5 | It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives . |
| 6 | He said that that is not just an early priority but an immediate one . |
| 7 | It had , however , not been intended to be just an economic body . |
| 8 | Just an expensive toy ? |
| 9 | They 're just an expensive flat and of course the answer 's penthouse |
| 10 | kind of carpets all the time , just an odd contract stuff , now it 's nearly all contract , so you 're seeing a lot of different carpets and it 's more interesting wondering where they 're going to , like America and |
| 11 | Because you often you see the English word , you 've no idea where it comes about it 's just an odd word when it 's been |
| 12 | Just an odd reaction . |
| 13 | Your bones , your eyes , your hair , your teeth are all going to be scrutinised by a panel of judges who are looking for your all-round potential , not just an impressive academic display . |
| 14 | However , Ingleborough has much more than just an impressive outline ; geologically it is a fascinating place . |
| 15 | There is no gaiety in Peter , she thought , bending her face to the wafer , no real pleasure in living , just an anxious shrinking from everything except duty ; obligation has become his Rule , he clings to it , it stops him drowning . |
| 16 | This is not just an arbitrary theory of schooling which they have dreamed up , but derives from their perception that they have been ‘ written off ’ . |
| 17 | Seen in this way , the moment of graduation is just an arbitrary point in the formation of the individual 's consciousness . |
| 18 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 19 | Anyway , the these erm , numbers do n't matter , this is just an arbitrary example . |
| 20 | And as for a study tour , well , that 's just an all expenses paid holiday for two or three weeks . |
| 21 | They are just an endless source of inspiration and excitement . |
| 22 | The Greek revolt was seen as a symbolic er event as well as just an anti Turkish er erm uprising . |
| 23 | This is an attractive hotel built in traditional chalet style , which has proved to be very popular with our previous clients , and is just an 8 minute walk from the main pedestrian precinct . |
| 24 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 25 | I know I am just an ignorant servant girl , aged seventeen , but I do know some Latin . |
| 26 | You 're just an ignorant little squirt who has n't the foggiest idea what you 're talking about ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm just an ignorant muso . |
| 28 | One way a visiting alien would be able to tell that the male/female difference is not just an insignificant human variation is by observing how obsessively , how incessantly we talk about it . |
| 29 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 30 | Mhm and this was just an innocent party |