Example sentences of "be just [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the time they 're just crazy instruments that do n't have a name . |
| 2 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |
| 3 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 4 | ‘ Unfortunately , it 's just human nature that keepers mistakes are magnified and replayed over and over again — but I 'm always pleased when they bounce back , as Bobby has done at Blackburn . |
| 5 | you know it anyway , it 's just common sense that , I mean you know how to cross the road now , do n't ya ? , look one way and that |
| 6 | It 's just bad luck that you happen to be stuck on . |
| 7 | The father says : ‘ It was just sheer luck that that was a toad , not a nuclear train . ’ |
| 8 | It was just pure chance that her job as a fuel technician would ensure that their paths would eventually cross , was n't it ? |
| 9 | Not surprisingly it was just basic self-respect that forced movie men to improve their image and to state their claim to be accepted members of the business community . |
| 10 | And it was just bad luck that Stephen was scheduled to be away that night . |
| 11 | It was a bright sunny morning until about 11.30 a.m. when Prime Minister Chamberlain was just finishing broadcasting that Great Britain was at war with Germany . |