Example sentences of "have [been] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 2 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 3 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 4 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 9 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 10 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 11 | It might even have been just another sound effect . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Without him so many Christmases would have been just another day . |
| 16 | But it could also have been just an ordinary large cloud , ’ said Markku Konttinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . |
| 17 | ‘ I would probably still be running anyway , but the Veteran scene has kept me motivated when I might have been just drifting around with my running . |
| 18 | I see from your CV , Mrs Spring , that you graduated in 1972 — so you would have been just TWELVE ? |
| 19 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 20 | To rely upon the 1982 accounts as providing a reason for deciding to discount these bills would have been reckless ; it would have been just and equitable to require Union Discount to bear the whole of the loss . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It must have been just after I left , thought Joan . |
| 23 | And , as the hairs on head and body are all at different stages of the hair growth cycle , waxing does not always mean that some hair does n't grow back quickly — it may have been just under the skin just waiting to pop out ! |
| 24 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 25 | The service standards could have been just circulated internally , but making them public meant everyone would know what level of service they had a right to expect from the police . |
| 26 | At another time and another place they would have been just another set of happy holiday snaps . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That seemed unlikely to win over the malcontents , but it may have been just enough to get the president home . |