Example sentences of "[noun sg] was just [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 2 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 3 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 4 | ‘ If you ask me , that story about Gebrec having something on his mind was just a cover-up . |
| 5 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , its effect was just the opposite . |
| 7 | It would n't last — nothing as wonderful as this ever did ; common sense told her their truce was just a transitory thing , things between them were too volatile , too unstable . |
| 8 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 9 | A non-feminist lesbian was just a failed heterosexual . |
| 10 | When Green was just a Colour |
| 11 | But in Dvořák 's Dumky , with its mercurial alternations of melancholy and gaiety , I did wonder if their playing was just a little short on true Slavonic temperament . |
| 12 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |
| 13 | The Cockney multi-millionaire was just a 17-year-old hopeful working as a messenger with the Rank Organisation in London . |
| 14 | The second half was just the same . |
| 15 | This may seem a minor disagreement , but if you were to question me about Panofsky , I would have to say that the disagreement was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 16 | For three years the war was just a large scale Radio thriller . |
| 17 | Well , the place was just a dream … completely out of this world . |
| 18 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 19 | Somebody quite disgracefully suggested that the amendment was just a fictitious fig leaf which was designed to cover the cracks in the Labour party ! |
| 20 | The parents of a nine year old girl who died while being treated at hospital say an internal inquiry was just a white wash . |
| 21 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 22 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 23 | Proud until I took the tools from the display card and then pride turned to disappointment for I had expected that the tools would be scaled down versions of Dad 's but the saw was just a piece of tin stamped out — it would n't cut paper and the hammer was similarly made . |
| 24 | This year 's crop was just an experimental one — it would normally be 9 feet high now — but was sown too late to reach full height . |
| 25 | The ivory damask curtains were drawn and Faye 's body was just a hump in the darkness . |
| 26 | More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity . |
| 27 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 28 | Her room was just the same . |
| 29 | The wall was just the right height for the dog to make a leap and bark into the ear of the passers by . |
| 30 | Basically it grew out of the idea that what the West represented , and the English middle class best of all , was something to emulate , look up to , admire — all the rest was just a bit rude and best if it politely disappeared . |