Example sentences of "have just been a " 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 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 .
7 ‘ That would have just been a dream , ’ said Libab .
8 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 .
9 Because no one could have found that brooch if it had just been a wilderness .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy .
13 That had just been a lucky guess .
14 Any more than Sandra had just been a wholesome , beautiful , normal girl looking to settle down .
15 Then her friend told her that there had just been an earthquake , so the woman concluded that it must have been that good .
16 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 … ’ .
17 It had just been an ordinary night , starting like a hundred others .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 The others have just been a job .
21 Later the former Grandstand presenter said : ‘ It 's just been a normal family Sunday lunch .
22 It 's just been a dry summer .
23 ‘ It 's a pity it 's just been a year .
24 It 's just been a good boat to us .
25 There 's just been a change in today 's programme .
26 It 's just been a long , exhausting day — ’
27 It 's just been a matter of time .
28 Well maybe it 's just been a deep , a deep-rooted infection .
29 It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month .
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