Example sentences of "is just an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The British territory is just an hour away by hydrofoil , and its newspapers , television , and radio carry frequent accounts of the current confidence crisis in the territory . |
| 3 | Walter 's position as house-husband is just an affectation , the result of having read ‘ all the right books ’ . |
| 4 | That 's the secret ; the big Healey is just an uncomplicated , user-friendly car with little cleverness but lots of heart . |
| 5 | Where there were plans for the future now there is just an aching void . |
| 6 | It is just an extension of on-the-road campaigning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | the music is just an unusual , and some of it is downright odd . |
| 9 | Her grandfather carved it from a single piece of pear wood ; its arms and legs are made of string , its shirt is just an old scrap of pyjama . |
| 10 | Anguilla ( pronounced An-Gwil-a ) is just an hour 's flight from Antigua and with a mean monthly temperature of 80 degrees fahrenheit it is not surprising that this British Crown Colony is fast becoming the ‘ in ’ place for holidaymakers . |
| 11 | As he films Mia , she tells him , ‘ Cinéma vérité is just an excuse to follow little girls into the ladies ' room . ’ |
| 12 | To show that pivoting in a compact tableau is just an application of the methods of Chapter 2 , we wrote out the pivot row explicitly . |
| 13 | The world is just an illusion . |
| 14 | OR ANY other concentration camp mini-series which is just an excuse for some right-on actress to shave her head and suffer stoically ( see : The Joan Of Arc Syndrome ) . |
| 15 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 16 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 17 | I say gentleman , but I suppose he is just an official thug . ’ |
| 18 | Everything else is just an embellishment . |
| 19 | How can I go back now , knowing that everything I believed about the Store and Arnold Bros and Grandson Richard is just … is just an opinion ? ’ |
| 20 | I think he is just an ill and shocked young man with the highly strung temperament of so many artistic people . |
| 21 | Although this is by any standards a grotesquely over-simplified account of hundreds of pages , it brings out the attitude which Althusser contests — the idea that Marx 's theory of political economy is just an alternative to the classical one , in that crucial experiments can be devised to adjudicate between them . |
| 22 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 23 | The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin . |
| 24 | Friends tell me that this could seriously hamper my chances of joining Athletico , as it is rumoured your club is just an excuse for getting smashed four or five times a week . |
| 25 | That is just an attitude , and I do n't know where they get that from . |
| 26 | The aid is just an aid . |
| 27 | Seen in this way , the moment of graduation is just an arbitrary point in the formation of the individual 's consciousness . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you think competitiveness is just an aspect of the society we live in , Bob ? ’ said Dyson . |
| 29 | At first he is just an unspecified ours , a bear ( 1841 ) . |
| 30 | Across the Pennines , in Derbyshire , the immense walled kitchen garden at Calke Abbey , where visitors to Calke could once sit in the now-ruined orangery that presides over it and admire the order and industry , is just an area of pasture . |