Example sentences of "[modal v] just [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I discuss at greater length in Chapter 10 , your first visits should just be a matter of getting to know the site , by wandering around . |
| 2 | It may well be we decide all we 're gon na send home is the result of the SATS , and it may just be a sheet with the subject names on and levels in , full stop . |
| 3 | If the cytoplasm of the egg has a well-defined pattern of constituents which determines the later organization of the embryo then cleavage may just be a way of partitioning this cytoplasmic pattern in the egg so that specific constituents go to specific cells . |
| 4 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 5 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 6 | It has been suggested ( Dixon 1984 : 586 ) that the omission of to here " may just be an irregularity with a diachronic explanation — like the plural of mouse being mice — that has simply to be learnt by users " . |
| 7 | The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible . |
| 8 | One night and morning did n't give her the right to confess her love when it might just be a burden to him . |
| 9 | Well that could just be a sort of way of life . |
| 10 | With the bad weather set to continue , they 're worried motorists simply wo n't learn their lesson , and it could just be a matter of time before motorway madness claims more lives . |
| 11 | ‘ There could just be an element of risk involved for her . |
| 12 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 13 | In words such as building graduating and nothing it would just be an N on the end like buildin graduatin . |
| 14 | But I mean that would just be an argument about where they set the level that you no longer were to qualify for child benefit , but I mean , bu , you know , presuma , presumably er , th the point the man was was making that er , the child benefit goes equally |
| 15 | As I said to Mum , there will be thousands there and if David Markham is one of them it will just be a question of avoiding him . |
| 16 | So that re , will just be a couple of reports and something |
| 17 | Then it will just be a matter of finding a suitable donor for bone marrow . ’ |
| 18 | A party , though , can just be a handful of people — you do not have to overstretch your resources or capabilities . |