Example sentences of "been just [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 2 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 3 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 4 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 5 | Police think it could 've been just a dirty night out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 8 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 9 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 10 | ‘ I think a part of me probably died when I took your job , though it may have been just the settling-down thing . |