Example sentences of "may just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear that all this may just be in my head . |
| 2 | However , it is best to avoid continuous harsh braking which may just result in locking the wheel and skidding . |
| 3 | Just watch it , said Jay , sipping brandy , breathing fire , I may just stomp you with my hairy great mammoth foot . |
| 4 | Whereas it may just be possible to compete with bruised ribs , you will not be able to compete with broken ones . |
| 5 | That is , their memories may just go back to Suez , they can remember where they were when Kennedy was assassinated and their formative political years were dominated by the Wilson government at home and the Vietnam war abroad . |
| 6 | Or they may just be building up their forces to start another attack . |
| 7 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 8 | You may just be bored with your current relationship , and your boredom is making the idea of an affair with a woman seem all the more exciting . |
| 9 | If there is one danger facing Armani , it 's that of becoming trapped in his own stereotype ; when the day finally comes that he tires of the simple suit and sensational jacket , the world may just insist that he keeps on making them . |
| 10 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 11 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
| 12 | They include poor handling and breaking in , anxiety or excitement , resentment of a particular form of work or a rider who bumps up and down on the horse 's back , or , of course , the horse may just simply prefer not to be ridden ! |
| 13 | The preformationist view may just be tenable by a believer in the Garden of Eden : an evolutionary biologist must reject it , and accept the alternative ‘ epigenetic ’ view , that there is a genuine increase in spatial complexity during development . |
| 14 | There have been miracles at Aintree before , and Ghofar , fit and fresh , may just have a better each-way chance than his odds of 33–1 suggest . |
| 15 | It may just be a little different in the heat , dryness and noise of a Sunday afternoon . |
| 16 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 17 | Part of the now defunct Ireland Colliery may just be discerned in the background . |
| 18 | I feel I 've lost everything ; that I may just as well go home . ’ |
| 19 | However , with more than 25% of all district councillors returned in 1990 being women , we may just be seeing evidence of a ‘ bottom up ’ trend in female participation in electoral politics in Britain . |
| 20 | Taken together , they form something much more important : street architecture , which may just as well be a delightful jumble as the carefully planned composition of a Georgian terrace . |
| 21 | They may just want in to steal . |
| 22 | It may just be another part of ‘ growing up ’ , but take time to find out if anything is bothering them . |
| 23 | If the cytoplasm of the egg has a well-defined pattern of constituents which determines the later organization of the embryo then cleavage may just be a way of partitioning this cytoplasmic pattern in the egg so that specific constituents go to specific cells . |
| 24 | ‘ I may be in tears , ’ said Henry , ‘ I may just … you know … blub ! ’ |
| 25 | He may just as well be a decision-maker , one who can foresee what decisions he will have to make , and what may happen as a result of them . |
| 26 | Not all field surveys necessitate formal interviewing ; especially in community surveys there may just be one field worker living in the community . |
| 27 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 28 | Working in a busy office , people have little time to learn the best way and may just ‘ get by ’ , using the first cursor movements they learned . |
| 29 | A leader may just be needed occasionally as a ‘ long stop ’ . |
| 30 | During the initial development of root definitions these factors should be considered in systems terms only , otherwise the analyst may just relate them to the subject organisation , overlooking other individuals or groups who contribute to the system as defined . |