Example sentences of "have just been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ From day one he has just been a super example to everyone — from YTS players to internationals — with his performances in matches and in training . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It has just been a long battle for us all . |
| 3 | Until now his brother Phil has just been a shoulder for his wife to cry on . |
| 4 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 5 | There 'd just been a cancellation . ’ |
| 6 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 7 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 8 | ‘ That would have just been a dream , ’ said Libab . |
| 9 | Lots of fiery meetings and grand gestures , plenty of petitions to Washington and protests outside John Wayne movies , but in the end they had just been a bunch of dumb redskins battering their heads against the white man 's bricks . |
| 10 | Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness . |
| 11 | Yes , she said , there had just been a birth in the house , but the family had gone to stay with cousins in Haryana ; there was now no one at home . |
| 12 | So we invoked that agreement , and Charlie said Winter Garden had set a precedent and we said No it had n't , it had just been a Cold War expedient and those days were over . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy . |
| 14 | That had just been a lucky guess . |
| 15 | Any more than Sandra had just been a wholesome , beautiful , normal girl looking to settle down . |
| 16 | Then her friend told her that there had just been an earthquake , so the woman concluded that it must have been that good . |
| 17 | The demolition of Daniel Rossiter 's slaughterhouse in 1783 , it seems , had just been an interim measure to ease congestion near the bridge ; now the Trustees were to have the power to ‘ … pull down and remove certain Houses and Buildings , now being in the Line of the said new proposed Road … ’ . |
| 18 | It had just been an ordinary night , starting like a hundred others . |
| 19 | She turned from the mirror now , with a smile on her face and I wondered if her unease had just been an illusion of my own . |
| 20 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 21 | I used to like giving poetry readings , but in the end I had to give up , for I could not stand the socializing afterwards , as if my poetry had just been the excuse for a drinking spree à la Dylan Thomas . |
| 22 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
| 23 | Perhaps it had just been the rather stuffy air in that crowded room . |
| 24 | But that had just been the beginning of the turmoil . |
| 25 | The earl , who had apparently dispersed his men before meeting the duke , clearly expected no trouble from Gloucester — confidence which would be incredible if Gloucester had just been the victim of a Woodville coup . |
| 26 | The others have just been a job . |
| 27 | Exposure drafts of ethical guidance on those topics have just been the subject of extensive consultation . |
| 28 | Later the former Grandstand presenter said : ‘ It 's just been a normal family Sunday lunch . |
| 29 | It 's just been a dry summer . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year . |