Example sentences of "it [modal v] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas it may just be possible to compete with bruised ribs , you will not be able to compete with broken ones . |
| 2 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 3 | It may just be a little different in the heat , dryness and noise of a Sunday afternoon . |
| 4 | It may just be another part of ‘ growing up ’ , but take time to find out if anything is bothering them . |
| 5 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 6 | Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb . |
| 7 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 8 | ‘ It may just be worth running the risk of needing a repair . ’ |
| 9 | It may just have been coincidence , but since the A1GSM went in , I have had no trouble at all with fish ailments . |
| 10 | However , looking at the archetype of the Weaving Mother operating in the general human domain , we can see the same principle operating in , for instance , the teaching systems of spiritual and esoteric traditions , where it may just as easily be the man who calls upon the powers of binding . |
| 11 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 12 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 13 | The £40,000 with of high technology next to it may just as well have come from another world as another country . |
| 14 | I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth |
| 15 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 16 | It may just be reflected sunlight , but it has s sickly and unnatural look to it The Castle 's towers are clearly visible in the distance . |
| 17 | It may just be the book you have been trying to find for years ! |
| 18 | It may just make one of the down-market dailies and thus please the marketing director , but it is probably not going to sell very much of the product . |
| 19 | It may just mean that you might see Er I mean is elevated above the A Nineteen , and indeed you can catch glimpses of it |
| 20 | with the baby it may just be possible to trick him two more times . " |
| 21 | So it may just be a seasonal thing . |
| 22 | This need not suggest a Machiavellian strategy ; it may just be sensible caution in the face of uncertainty about both the external and the internal corporate assessment . |
| 23 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 24 | The output comparisons have to take into account social , economic and political considerations : it may just be that in Rochester the residents prefer not to have to drag their refuse up the garden path , at any price . |
| 25 | This is probably an aberrant copy ; but it may just represent a true 1692 state with the stage/page discrepancies in Act 1 already made good . |
| 26 | It 's an enormous cheek , but it may just work . |
| 27 | So the next of the packages to wander through rejoices in the title Fun Pack — it 's obviously not a word processor , but it may just interest you a little . |
| 28 | There 's not a lot the act can do in terms for example of prosecuting people who use deception , it may just be possible I 've been advised , but it 's extremely difficult from an evidential and other point of view to do that . |
| 29 | I , for one , am not sure if I am in favour of remote boats , it may just be me getting older and , therefore , less responsive to new ideas and gadgets . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , it may just be you . ’ |