Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] just [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they must have been just well they must have I did n't see them |
| 2 | Getting used to an all-female environment must have been just as much a shock for Eva . |
| 3 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 4 | In particular , plankton evolution could perhaps have been stimulated by a drastic change in ocean current systems consequent upon Pangaea breakup , but the sea-level rise might have been just as significant . |
| 5 | It 's more than a little apt for its group finance director , since he could have been just about anything he wanted in life , and what 's more , he confesses , he was almost a politician . |
| 6 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 8 | It was not heavy at all and moving would have been just too much effort . |
| 9 | The expression ‘ appropriates without the consent of the owner ’ would have been just as inept as ‘ converts without the consent of the owner . ’ |
| 10 | You would think that , I think that the people in in your hospice would have been just as happy to see somebody from Eastenders and you would n't have to pay for |
| 11 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 12 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |
| 13 | Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it … |