Example sentences of "[ex0] be just the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters . |
| 2 | There are just the two . |
| 3 | At last there were just the external walls to be given a final coat of white paint . |
| 4 | There were just the two of us . |
| 5 | There were just the two of them . |
| 6 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 7 | ‘ Mam had asked him to look after us and there were just the three children in the house . |
| 8 | There were just the three of them , with Chamberlain holding one man 's future or the other 's in the palm of his hand . |
| 9 | I know what boys are ] Walking stomachs ] I told her , you fetch two girls now , there 's just the one room , but she got round me , she said , the boy 's only a babby ! ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't have family snaps when there 's just the two of you and a cat . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's just the two of them , ’ said George . |
| 12 | It 's always a little tense when there 's just the four of us . |
| 13 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , if you want to know , she said : ‘ Of course , she 's quite presentable , but I always think there 's just the tiniest bit of the tart there . ’ ’ |
| 15 | On the other hand , there is just the remote possibility that someone will invent it tomorrow . |
| 16 | The means may be likened to a seed , the end to a tree ; and there is just the same inviolable connexion between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree … |
| 17 | Aye anybody speaking Gaelic there is just the same to me |
| 18 | Suddenly , there is just the slightest hint that Mr Murdoch is losing the magic touch , and for many investment banks and financial institutions around the world that magic touch was the main reason for backing him . |
| 19 | There was just the summer-shrunken stream from which a pale mist drifted to lie in shadowy skeins across the plump fields of wheat and rye and barley . |
| 20 | There was just the clumsy pushing , prodding . |
| 21 | Outside in the street the traffic might roar , here there was hush broken only by that soft subliminal music , outside the air might be heavy with the mingled smells of petrol fumes and donuts , Macdonalds ' burgers , trash cans , and sweat , here there was just the faintest perfume of a pine pot-pourri , subtle as the music . |
| 22 | There was just the faintest trace of hesitation behind his smooth approach , as if for once he was n't quite sure that was true . |
| 23 | ‘ There was just the one copy , which limited readership somewhat . ’ |
| 24 | Er er there was just the one meal a day and a piece of bread and that was your lot . |
| 25 | There was just the one chef , and he was standing at what looked like a domestic range using a wire scoop in a king-sized wok . |
| 26 | If it had been later in the season , and the roses in full bloom , he might have missed the portal altogether , but there was just the one unopened bud on the bare branches , of a delicate peach shade with hints of rose which made him think of a girl 's skin . |
| 27 | So there was just the two |
| 28 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 29 | erm And then the twelfth race , the ten twenty , there was just the top erm standard distance event , an A one grade , four fifty metres and I 'm going to go for trap one again , Ambridge Power , trained by Paul Garland , another nice erm nice dog , he 's running really well . |
| 30 | No , they ran across the top of the water and hammered desperately at the air with their wings and then , just when it was obvious they were n't going to achieve anything , they suddenly did ; the water dropped away and there was just the slow creak of wings pulling the goose up into the sky . |