Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 2 | The map gives some prominence to Lincoln and also names Lindsey ( meaning either the later Lindsey or possibly the county of Lincoln ) , and the map 's patron must have been just such a well-educated man with Lincolnshire connections as Richard de Bello , who was an MA . |
| 3 | She said well it must have been just those two little bits . |
| 4 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 5 | Dr. Favor was older than she was , at least fifteen years older , which put her about thirty , and he could have been just another man sitting there . |
| 6 | The sixty-seven ruins on the Plain of Barsoom commonly called ‘ temples ’ may have been just that ; or equally well may have been army barracks , isolated quarters for the mentally disturbed or victims of plague , or holiday camps for Martian urbanites . |
| 7 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 8 | I see from your CV , Mrs Spring , that you graduated in 1972 — so you would have been just TWELVE ? |
| 9 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 10 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 11 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |
| 12 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
| 13 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 14 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |