Example sentences of "just have [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It ca n't just have been a whim . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , you had , you had thought about it and so it would just have been a case of saying , yes , this is obvious . |
| 3 | But her appointment should not just have been a token . |
| 4 | ‘ But ‘ little ’ could just have been a term of endearment . |
| 5 | Was it meant to be a chuckling advertisement for his own sensibility ; a tease about the gritty , unpolishable surface of the desert ; or might it just have been a joke on us ? |