Example sentences of "be just [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear vague noises for a bit , but even straining I could n't make out what they were , and they could have been just noises on the line . |
| 2 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 3 | It 's been just trenches , tents and gymnasiums lately . ’ |
| 4 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 5 | He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics . |
| 6 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 7 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 8 | Rather , future and past are just directions , like up and down , left and right , forward and back , in something called space-time . |
| 9 | Many are just sharks , keeping the enquirer on the line at premium rates , says the Telephone Information watchdog ICSTIS . |
| 10 | First , there are just institutions which neither possess , nor claim to possess , any authority . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 13 | And these are just thoughts about the spectacles qua physical objects of a certain size and weight . |
| 14 | These are just thoughts . |
| 15 | Some are just housewives , and there 's at least one who I know does n't need the money . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Some of them are just minutes from the road . |
| 17 | Of course , many of these are just signs of normal growing pains — particularly those higher up the list . |
| 18 | Did your grandparents mention any other parts of the glen that used to used away back in time that are just ruins now ? |
| 19 | are shorter than everybody else 's and , but this one had a , a cape on with a gold braid which meant he was a big high up one , and he was just absolutely paranoid , I mean they reckon that the Matawa are such fanatics that they are just Greeks , you know they just , you know these ones that just |
| 20 | There are just hints of Balthus 's influence in her interiors ; enough to add a piquancy to a supremely-decorative style . |
| 21 | Her son said : ‘ They are just friends — nothing else . ’ |
| 22 | It came from there not being even that trace of sexuality which there always is between men and women , even those who are just friends . |
| 23 | Me and Anthony are just friends . |
| 24 | English does n't change from year to year and history does n't change and languages are just languages but physics and chemistry are changing constantly because new things are being discovered . |
| 25 | ‘ Young girls who go out with men your age are just gold-diggers ! |
| 26 | We are just musicians , who love playing — what you see is what you get . ’ |
| 27 | They are just procedures . |
| 28 | Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target . |
| 29 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 30 | The rest are just muppets . ’ |