Example sentences of "[be] just [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 2 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 3 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 4 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 5 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 6 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 7 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 8 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 9 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 10 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 11 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 12 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 13 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 14 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 15 | He could n't pretend there 'd been just the two of them . ’ |
| 16 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 17 | Now , it 's been just the four months for me . |
| 18 | Her face had been just the same then — interested but inscrutable — and she had taken a fiver off all of them . |
| 19 | But it could also have been just an ordinary large cloud , ’ said Markku Konttinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . |
| 20 | What might have been just an isolated , if pretty , trick effect is thoroughly integrated into the thematic content of the film in characteristic Minnellian style — though the evidence of interviews sometimes suggests that this aspect of his work , unlike the stylish and carefully contrived visuals themselves , is in part unconscious and instinctive . |
| 21 | No , I am just a simple man of business . |
| 22 | I am just a poor girl ; what do I know of the sea-king 's palace ? |
| 23 | I am just a little girl , I have n't even started my periods yet and little girls can tantrum louder and then can sulk deeper than anything else in the universe . |
| 24 | ‘ I am just a little ship , ’ Aunt Emily said , ‘ drifting farther and farther out to sea . ’ |
| 25 | I am just a humble supporter who , though never blessed with the gift myself , loves the artistry and beauty of football and the poetry in motion displayed by the Athletico forward line . |
| 26 | Afterwards a jubilant victor said : ‘ Everybody always says I am just a big server . |
| 27 | I know I am just an ignorant servant girl , aged seventeen , but I do know some Latin . |
| 28 | I would like to think I am just an ordinary person . |
| 29 | I am just an ordinary Daleswoman and if I began to think or act otherwise I know a few people around here who would soon bring me to my senses . |
| 30 | My own aspirations are more lowly — I am just an ordinary member . |