Example sentences of "being just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enemy , it appears , have withdrawn a short distance from the area in front of 6 Commando , the front being just the same in front of the other Commando units . |
| 2 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 3 | Today , the Dino Berlinetta Speciale remains a fascinating design , aggressive without being just a road-going version of a racing Ferrari and rich in class and atmosphere like all the outstanding Pininfarina designs . |
| 4 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 5 | In other words , he should have treated the media business as being just like any other . |
| 6 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
| 7 | Charles said he knew it well , being just off Eaton Square and close to his place of work . |
| 8 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 9 | An example is provided by Rome in the late fourth and third centuries BC , the period which saw Rome emerge from being just one of the cities in Italy to become the conqueror of Carthage and a principal power in the ancient world . |
| 10 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 11 | He also instructed those around him in these arts , and was far from being just a powerful military ruler . |
| 12 | In the following May , Miller again reported illness , being just recovered from a fever and subsequent attack of rheumatism , so wished to postpone a visit to Woburn . |
| 13 | In his late teens , there were still signs of puppy fat , and his rounded face sat under an unruly head of hair trimmed to the current style , though not especially trendy , and he could be lost in a crowd as being just another boy on the block ; unassuming and unspecial . |
| 14 | The Islamic calendar is one of the few remaining purely lunar calendars , the year being just over ten days shorter than the tropical year , or year of the seasons . |
| 15 | He undergoes a personality change , from being just ‘ one of the others ’ at home in Yorkshire , to being show jumping 's superstar . |
| 16 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 17 | We would argue that far from being just another fashionable initiative it should be seen as a strategy for delivering significant partnership objectives . |
| 18 | Even then , when others were talking of fusion reactors being just around the corner , Cockcroft warmed that ‘ it is difficult for us with our limited vision to see far enough ahead to say whether and when the final goal can be achieved . |
| 19 | Then composers began to lose interest in the instrument because it was useless in an orchestra , being just too quiet . |
| 20 | When rock'n'roll loses its fangs and stops being just a little bit dangerous , then it is over . |
| 21 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 22 | The difference between Figures 2 and 3 is probably not important , each being just a different representation of what can only be a pale reflection of the true state of affairs , just as any illustration of the body 's organs is but a poor reflection of its true inner workings . |
| 23 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 24 | She lost 7lbs ( 3.2kg ) more , and from being just ‘ slimmer ’ , Stephanie 's body became curvaceous and beautifully toned . |
| 25 | Perdita remembered Sukey being just as deferential to Grace Alderton three years ago , the first time she 'd seen Ricky in the flesh . |
| 26 | The words were beginning to cease being just shapes and pictures . |
| 27 | So maybe you 'd better stick to being just The Strawberries after all . |
| 28 | We want each one of our hotels to be taken as architecture in its own right , as opposed to being just another Disney hotel . ’ |
| 29 | However , it was a little later in the campaign when the asylum card was really played , particularly by Kenneth Baker ( whose swan-song had been predicted by many observers as being just this ) , but also by Douglas Hurd and the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Was being just a shade Too Keen |