Example sentences of "[be] just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 2 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 3 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 4 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 5 | The sixth , published in 1752 and dedicated to the Earl of Northumberland , had an elaborate frontispiece ( hitherto it had been just a large formal garden with a plantation in the distance ) etched and engraved by Edward Rooker ( 1711–74 ) , after a drawing by Samuel Wade of an allegorical group showing Britannia receiving the fruits of the earth . |
| 6 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 7 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 8 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 9 | When local police were told of two female bodies on the beach , it had been just a nuisance . |
| 10 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 11 | These have been just a few ideas to get you started . |
| 12 | The single , simple action was all it took to move what had once been just a concept into the final stage of action . |
| 13 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming , he said . |
| 14 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 15 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 16 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 17 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 18 | Or had all his compliments and charm , so convincing at the time , been just a charade to get him what he wanted ? |
| 19 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 20 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 21 | But poverty had been just a word , an image on a screen — until now . |
| 22 | The chilli also meant that Praeger had been just a wire man with orders not to kill anybody who came at him just blind them and run . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 24 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 25 | And yet there was the suggestion that he 'd been just a little unlucky , perhaps ? |
| 26 | ‘ Tony 's always been just a friend to me , ’ she said , smiling . |
| 27 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 28 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 29 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 30 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |