Example sentences of "[modal v] just [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps we should just be friends ? ’ |
2 | There should just be room for your finger , and your toes should not feel cramped . |
3 | OLD people who need treatment for heart conditions may just be computer statistics to hospital bosses — but think how important they are to their families and of the contribution they have made to this country . |
4 | ‘ But I 've a nasty feeling , ’ she concluded dismally , ‘ that if you do find anything there , it 'll just be Alex 's body . ’ |
5 | And that wo n't , that 'll just be stain ? |
6 | That one day I 'll just be history , like the rest … |
7 | I 'm terribly grateful to you for all your help , but we 'll just be friends tonight , OK ? ’ |
8 | Which might just be Alan Davies ' test for 1992 . |
9 | ‘ Do you know , Miss Hardbroom , it might just be Algernon Rowan-Webb . |
10 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
11 | There might just be benefits |
12 | I can always give you a routine check-up , but obviously , if you get any twinges , even if you think it might just be wind , give us a call . |
13 | If the whites in Southern Africa could see this , not as a threat but as an opportunity — if they could grasp the truth that by a change of will and spirit they could deprive the Communists of their best propaganda weapon — there still might just be time for things to move in a new direction . |
14 | When she could just be Lily Greene , on holiday in Paris . |
15 | With luck Sandra Walker could just be number 59 . |
16 | Just the the metal and the chlorine so sodium chloride would just be N A and then C L. |
17 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
18 | Student : ‘ I thought it would just be kid 's stuff … |
19 | Without you plastic flowers in shop windows would just be plastic flowers in shop windows . |
20 | No , it would just be comments . |
21 | There would just be time for a quick shower if she hurried . |
22 | ‘ Outsourcing would just be data processing . |
23 | I would think it would just be trimmings . |
24 | ‘ I 'm not going to go down on my knees and thank you , Daddy , because that would just be words . |
25 | It will just be Paul McStay doing his best for his country . |
26 | They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom . |