Example sentences of "[verb] be just a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 2 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 3 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 4 | By contrast , the time limit for actions in private law is at least three years , and for judicial review applications made outside Ord. 53 there is no fixed time limit : delay in applying is just a factor to be taken into account when the court exercises its discretion whether or not to award a declaration or injunction . |
| 5 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ I know what you really want is just a demonstration , ’ Henry said . |
| 7 | All it wants is just a slight tap with a hammer . |
| 8 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 9 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 10 | Now , knowing what the future holds is just a phone call away . |
| 11 | And yet there was the suggestion that he 'd been just a little unlucky , perhaps ? |
| 12 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 13 | And they 've got is just a , perhaps a a , a few courses of brickwork . |
| 14 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 15 | Another version says that the idea of tapes being wiped was just a wheeze to get a comfortable taxi back to base ! |
| 16 | ‘ Whole ass in view apart from that scrap of cloth there ; bare back , so you know she 's got a bare front , but all you get 's just a promise of something you never see . |
| 17 | And all it takes is just a little work to understand exactly how . |
| 18 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 19 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 20 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 21 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 22 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 24 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 26 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 27 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 28 | But it could also have been just an ordinary large cloud , ’ said Markku Konttinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . |
| 29 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 30 | What might have been just an isolated , if pretty , trick effect is thoroughly integrated into the thematic content of the film in characteristic Minnellian style — though the evidence of interviews sometimes suggests that this aspect of his work , unlike the stylish and carefully contrived visuals themselves , is in part unconscious and instinctive . |