Example sentences of "[noun sg] was just [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 2 | ‘ If you ask me , that story about Gebrec having something on his mind was just a cover-up . |
| 3 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , its effect was just the opposite . |
| 5 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 6 | When Green was just a Colour |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , the place was just a dream … completely out of this world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All this led me to believe that written approval was just a matter of time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ivory damask curtains were drawn and Faye 's body was just a hump in the darkness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All the rest was just an act . |
| 18 | That whole day was just a wreck . |
| 19 | There are 2 local lads this year ; Edward Haddon from Charlbury started rowing as a 9 year old at school in Oxford then the boat race was just a dream . |
| 20 | Mellissa was just a servant , for the Goddess ' sake ! |
| 21 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 22 | With the emergence of Muhammad Ali , no one would ever see the ring the same way again , nor even the fighters themselves ; a TV go , a purse and a sheared lip would never be enough ; and a title was just a belt unless you did something with it . |
| 23 | But without love , passion was just a bubble . |
| 24 | Chewing the fat last week , Santa Cruz Operation Inc observed that ‘ the Advanced Computing Environment was just a figment of the ACE consortium 's imagination . ’ |
| 25 | The pantry was just a walk-in alcove off the kitchen . |
| 26 | Separating the province from the rest of the island was just a way of sidestepping the Protestant minority 's implacable hostility to a British withdrawal . |
| 27 | She wanted to say something , he felt , and the cigarette was just a moment 's loss of nerve . |
| 28 | ‘ If we slip up and drop into mid-table , people will say that our start to the season was just a flash in the pan . |
| 29 | He told himself that the itching in his scalp was just a heat rash , and determined not to scratch his head in the presence of the nurse . |
| 30 | The furthest stable was just a room , like any other , with four walls , a ceiling , and a door . |