Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 2 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 3 | There were now just the two of us left in the dining room . |
| 4 | The prop-room became crowded with elderly men ; stage-hands and fly-men , none of whom were needed for this particular production but who were there just the same , heating cans of baked beans in a saucepan on the fire . |
| 5 | It was enough just the hot water and the spills |
| 6 | It was not just the usual enmities and silly Trollopian rivalries of a narrow society living very much in each other 's pockets . |
| 7 | It was not just the new layout of wide avenues and boulevards , the greenery , the light and the air . |
| 8 | But it was not just the new that offered business potential . |
| 9 | It was not just the inner cities . |
| 10 | But it was not just the short-lived weather which sent spirits soaring . |
| 11 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 12 | Showmanship was not just the accidental way in which British and American films were distributed , it was the essence of a whole phenomenon and the films of the English-language world can only be understood in this way . |
| 13 | It was not just the natural fear of a cruel crucifixion : suffused with the divine life , the person of Jesus could not die in any ordinary sense . |
| 14 | Thirdly , it was not just the bald declarations of innocence that impressed me , but the nature and quality of those declarations : there were passages in both books which , as in Meehan 's letters to me , had the sharp ring of truth . |
| 15 | It must be noted that leprosy was not just the twentieth-century disease known by that name but covered many other skin complaints ( see Leviticus 13 ) . |
| 16 | She felt light-headed and it was not just the swift change from lying down to standing . |
| 17 | It was n't just the terrible things he 'd implied about Isabelle , although , God knew , they were bad enough . |
| 18 | It was n't just the overwhelming sense of power that seemed to emanate from him as he stood there , it was something in the startlingly blue eyes which raked her slender figure and delicate features with an intensity that almost took her breath away . |
| 19 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 20 | And therefore i i i it was n't just the poor s saying well I want the same as everybody else , I want as much as a middle peasant . |
| 21 | It was n't just the slight pain that stopped her sleeping , it was also the mental shock of what she had done . |
| 22 | It was n't just the usual liaison : the two of them fell head over heels in love . |
| 23 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 24 | It was n't just the major record companies that found themselves unable to cope with '89 's burgeoning Rave scene . |
| 25 | Because he was n't just the same hard , tough personality that he always had been : he was now far more dangerous — certainly if her present fragile emotions were anything to go by . |
| 26 | It was n't just the vertiginous span between his moments of exquisite taste and subtlety , and his lapses into the crassest vulgarity and corn . |
| 27 | It was n't just the unmistakable aura of wealth and ruthless power which drew women to him like moths to the flame . |
| 28 | It was n't just the sumptuous disproportion of form over content , or the ultra-vivid hypersexual bliss induced by his refinement and exaggeration of the mannerisms of passion . |
| 29 | It was n't just the interminable waiting , the lateness of the hour , the cold boredom he must have suffered . |
| 30 | It was n't just the old and the rich who moved to Moon Beach . |