Example sentences of "[verb] been just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 2 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 3 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 4 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 5 | In past decades the roof void in most houses has been just that : a black , dusty hole in which to dump unused goods out of sight . |
| 6 | Since I 've been back at work , life has been just great . |
| 7 | But we ca n't wait to come back over , because the response we 've had over here has been just overwhelming . |
| 8 | At the same time the decline of the small manufacturing firm has been just as dramatic . |
| 9 | OFFICIALLY there has been just one Clinton fighting on the Democrat ticket to get into the White House . |
| 10 | Thus there has grown up an interest in feminist ‘ herstory ’ ; etymologically impossible , the word emphasizes that his-story has been just that — the history of men . |
| 11 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 12 | The issue of nuclear and chemical weapons has been just as embattled as that of the Kurds , but this time the protagonists were the UN and the Iraqi government . |
| 13 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 14 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 15 | The slow down in the rate of growth in the Eurocurrency market-growth that has been just about static since the early 1980's — can perhaps be attributed to the fact that domestic markets have become increasingly deregulated , while the foreign currency activities of domestic banks have become increasingly regulated by domestic central banks . |
| 16 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 17 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
| 18 | After all that , she 'd been just ‘ Madam ’ for a while , which might have indicated that she was getting older or grander , except that she always looked just the same , never any older . |
| 19 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |
| 20 | He could n't pretend there 'd been just the two of them . ’ |
| 21 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 22 | And yet there was the suggestion that he 'd been just a little unlucky , perhaps ? |
| 23 | My boyfriend says that ladies like me huv been just too liberated for our own good . |
| 24 | ‘ And the other boots would have been just inside the baize door as usual , ’ said Ethel thoughtfully . |
| 25 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |
| 26 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 27 | This could have been just the usual self-indulgent actor 's reminiscences . |
| 28 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 29 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 30 | With an authoritarian captain to instil some pep into them , a draw or two may have been salvaged and it would have been just another defeat rather than an abject cave-in , but Gower was not able to pick them up . |