Example sentences of "be just [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ajayi had first arrived the games room had been just right . |
| 2 | In the old days , it had been just poor . |
| 3 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 4 | Could have been just nothing-some little schoolboy sin . |
| 5 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 6 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 7 | Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great . |
| 8 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 9 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 10 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 11 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 12 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 13 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 14 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 15 | I see from your CV , Mrs Spring , that you graduated in 1972 — so you would have been just TWELVE ? |
| 16 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 17 | But that had been just harmless , meaningless attraction . |
| 18 | Roberta Alexander and Caroline Graham had been just eleven when they first met , new girls at a boarding-school in North Wales . |
| 19 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 20 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In appearance , it looks like a stage set for drama — and indeed it has always been just that , whether in historic times , when the drama of John Knox and Mary , Queen of Scots , was played out in the streets , or today , when Schiller 's Mary Stuart , or Donizetti 's or Thea Musgrave 's operas about the ill-fated queen , may be staged at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 23 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 24 | He 's a dear , kind man who said he was a safe harbour for me , and he 's been just that . " |
| 25 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 26 | And someone who 's been just used to driving a car are they going to be able to drive the huge long bus with no extra |
| 27 | But we ca n't wait to come back over , because the response we 've had over here has been just overwhelming . |
| 28 | But when I think it would have been just eight years from completion now , up to a height of about 400 feet , I think it 's sad we did n't get permission to build it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |