Example sentences of "but that [is] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt there are modern adepts who might scoff at our amateur efforts , but that 's just what we were , amateurs struggling in a land for the E6 leader or the A3 and A4 aider , without being able to do either . |
| 2 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 3 | But that 's just the start ; counts of 200 are not uncommon and in summer 1984 the pollen count in central London reached a record 820 . |
| 4 | Some people say we farm people get used to animals being hurt or killed , but that 's just not true . |
| 5 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 6 | ‘ But that 's just it ! |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , but that 's just something that happened in the outside world . |
| 8 | But that 's just the easy explanation . |
| 9 | But that 's just because they wear black and the bass player glides in synch with the disaster area that is the guitar player . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , but that 's just like having fish and chips on a Friday to us sometimes . |
| 11 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 12 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 13 | But that 's just the sort of costly stunt that the unconventional Richard Branson attempts when he 's not at the helm of his two highly successful businesses , music group Virgin and airline Virgin Atlantic . |
| 14 | Anyway that , that I mean lack of experience , lack of knowledge and , put that down to , probably but that 's just another story . |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the Earth 's gravity . |
| 16 | ‘ I know you find it embarrassing to show your feelings in front of anyone , especially Aubrey , ’ she said with a mischievous smile , ‘ but that 's just being terribly English . |
| 17 | But that 's just how I was until the age of twelve , I recognise myself . |
| 18 | But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home . |
| 19 | Er but that 's just er something to talk around . |
| 20 | Er but that 's just I say , that is my opinion . |
| 21 | Word processors such as Microsoft Word , Samna IV , Wordcraft and WordPerfect can certainly drive page printers but that 's just about the limit of their desktop publishing capabilities . |
| 22 | Of course , I despised myself for despising them for showing such genuine and unselfish emotions , but that 's just one of the things you have to get used to when you 're in a serious self-destruction spiral . |
| 23 | But that 's just what Mauriac declines to do . |
| 24 | There are very few homes in Middlesex where you need to cross a stream to reach the front door , but that 's just what Pauline and John Williams have to do to reach their beautiful detached house . |
| 25 | Poor man — I do n't know what he thought about me , but that 's just the way it happened . |
| 26 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 27 | But that 's just been coming |
| 28 | ‘ But that 's just it : there is nothing to explain , ’ said Carlo passionately . |
| 29 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the point , that 's just the brilliance of it . |
| 30 | ‘ But that 's just it ! |