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 .
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