Example sentences of "would be [verb] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be looking just to replace his salary , whereas to the employer , the loss to the employer would be considerably , would be considerably more , could n't it . |
| 2 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
| 3 | It would be unsatisfying just to look at the ultimate refinement of their natures ; the picture becomes too perfect and stylized . |
| 4 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 5 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 6 | If due account is taken of the present state of the law in regard to mortgages and choses in action , it is apparent that to make a distinction in the case of land would be to make just such an exception . |
| 7 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 8 | Mine went up with , you know let's face it if I was doing sixty mile an hour it would be doing just over six grand . |