Example sentences of "if it were just " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was already a rather perfunctory air to the Queen 's visit three years ago , as if it were just a required coda to her tour of China . |
| 2 | You have run after me to find out this thing as if it were just an answer to a riddle , or a joke which you remembered half of . |
| 3 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 4 | Evidence was reinterpreted that might seem to count against them : for example , the Earth 's long geological history , which seemed impossible if it were just a cooling sphere ; or the Sun 's apparently endless emission of energy , which was hard to explain in terms of its being made of coal , or fuelled by meteors , or contracting and giving out gravitational energy as heat and light . |
| 5 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 6 | The Direktor had suggested that it was not necessary for Willi to go , that in fact it would be much better if it were just him , Busacher , and no-one else . |
| 7 | Er the reason we wan na get it right is because er this Superintendent , erm he 's obviously got his interests very much on it , and he 's he 's keen to know what our response is going to be , and if it were just a member of the public I think we could we could being crude I think we could fob 'em off , but I think it 's gon na have to be a very structured answer as to why we 're not gon na do it . |
| 8 | Yes , I think so if it were just three or four of them you 've got to have |