Example sentences of "[vb infin] been just a " 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 | If only he could have been just a little less ruthless about it along the way . |
| 4 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 5 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It could have been just a bush moving in the breeze . |
| 7 | I doubt whether this implied anything lurid ; it may have been just a consultation . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe I 'd stopped believing , started wondering if things could n't have been just a bit different . |
| 9 | Well that must have been just a bus going . |
| 10 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 11 | But it could also have been just an ordinary large cloud , ’ said Markku Konttinen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute . |
| 12 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 13 | What might have been just an isolated , if pretty , trick effect is thoroughly integrated into the thematic content of the film in characteristic Minnellian style — though the evidence of interviews sometimes suggests that this aspect of his work , unlike the stylish and carefully contrived visuals themselves , is in part unconscious and instinctive . |
| 14 | Thucydides ( ii.22 ) says that Pericles , as general in 431 , ‘ did not summon the Assembly ’ , and though this may have been just an exercise of personal authority , there is another passage ( iv . |