Example sentences of "[modal v] just [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I discuss at greater length in Chapter 10 , your first visits should just be a matter of getting to know the site , by wandering around . |
| 2 | It may well be we decide all we 're gon na send home is the result of the SATS , and it may just be a sheet with the subject names on and levels in , full stop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 5 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 6 | You 're supposed to be an actor , but I suspect you may just be an exhibitionist . ’ |
| 7 | It has been suggested ( Dixon 1984 : 586 ) that the omission of to here " may just be an irregularity with a diachronic explanation — like the plural of mouse being mice — that has simply to be learnt by users " . |
| 8 | But this may just be an illusion . |
| 9 | if we start being arbitrary it 'll just be a shambles : at least , let us hope so . |
| 10 | It wo n't be in centimetres or millimetres , it 'll just be a number . |
| 11 | It ‘ might just be a masterpiece ’ , he said in his report . |
| 12 | It might just be a case |
| 13 | Barring a last-minute volte-face by the MoD , the aircraft will then be at the mercy of the highest bidder , who might just be a scrap dealer . |
| 14 | Well we 'll try and get some erm we 'll look down , the next time I 'm down the library and look and see if they 've got any Enid Blyton because that might just be a way in . |
| 15 | And that time might just be a drink or a coffee — as always . |
| 16 | As a rule of thumb , when d s get down much below 0.05 , we can regard them as so small that they might just be a sampling fluke ; we will conclude that for all practical purposes there is no effect of one variable upon another , and erase arrows with very small path coefficients from our model . |
| 17 | The extra detail visible in the monkey 's brain might just be a consequence of it being bigger than the rat 's , but a comparison between the somatosensory cortices of the two animals shows that this is n't so , for this time it is in the rat that the extra detail is visible . |
| 18 | It might just be a trailer . |
| 19 | One night and morning did n't give her the right to confess her love when it might just be a burden to him . |
| 20 | The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks . |
| 21 | Oh that could just be a possibility as I thought send dad on a delivery down there . |
| 22 | ‘ It could just be a coincidence . |
| 23 | Well that could just be a sort of way of life . |
| 24 | With the bad weather set to continue , they 're worried motorists simply wo n't learn their lesson , and it could just be a matter of time before motorway madness claims more lives . |
| 25 | ‘ There could just be an element of risk involved for her . |
| 26 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 27 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 28 | Sound would just be a waste . |
| 29 | It would just be a business arrangement . |
| 30 | Cos if the the blue fly went there and and maggots got into it , it would just be a job . |