Example sentences of "[pers pn] may just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may just be able to tell you after his funeral . ’ |
| 2 | You may just be bored with your current relationship , and your boredom is making the idea of an affair with a woman seem all the more exciting . |
| 3 | Of course , you may just be curious about how other people spend their working lives . |
| 4 | You 're supposed to be an actor , but I suspect you may just be an exhibitionist . ’ |
| 5 | However , with more than 25% of all district councillors returned in 1990 being women , we may just be seeing evidence of a ‘ bottom up ’ trend in female participation in electoral politics in Britain . |
| 6 | Or they may just be building up their forces to start another attack . |
| 7 | They may be smaller ; they may just be nearer the ground . |
| 8 | Whereas it may just be possible to compete with bruised ribs , you will not be able to compete with broken ones . |
| 9 | It may just be a little different in the heat , dryness and noise of a Sunday afternoon . |
| 10 | It may just be another part of ‘ growing up ’ , but take time to find out if anything is bothering them . |
| 11 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 12 | Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb . |
| 13 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 14 | ‘ It may just be worth running the risk of needing a repair . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 17 | I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It may just be reflected sunlight , but it has s sickly and unnatural look to it The Castle 's towers are clearly visible in the distance . |
| 20 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 21 | with the baby it may just be possible to trick him two more times . " |
| 22 | So it may just be a seasonal thing . |
| 23 | This need not suggest a Machiavellian strategy ; it may just be sensible caution in the face of uncertainty about both the external and the internal corporate assessment . |
| 24 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 25 | The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price . |
| 26 | There 's not a lot the act can do in terms for example of prosecuting people who use deception , it may just be possible I 've been advised , but it 's extremely difficult from an evidential and other point of view to do that . |
| 27 | I , for one , am not sure if I am in favour of remote boats , it may just be me getting older and , therefore , less responsive to new ideas and gadgets . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , it may just be you . ’ |
| 29 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 30 | It 's , it 's , it 's very desperate and I 'm not saying that you would do it back because of that , but it may just be the thing that influences you to buy a particular brand , particularly the things which are heavily erm which have many alternatives to buy . |