Example sentences of "only [be] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 32 | Since the First Directive has only been in operation for a matter of weeks , much has still to be learned about its full impact . |
| 33 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 34 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 35 | I was a gunner , I 'd only been in er |
| 36 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 37 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 38 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 39 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 40 | Patient E16 had only been in hospital once , three years before his terminal illness . |
| 41 | The system has only been in place for a month but already , says ‘ we are seeing the benefits . ’ |
| 42 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 43 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 44 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 45 | Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours . |
| 46 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 47 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 48 | Unfortunately , Gail had n't realised that it was only because Mr Elder had only been in Hospital for so long , that he was overjoyed to see her and him wanting to kiss her was completely innocent . |
| 49 | That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the . |
| 50 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |
| 51 | If the Christians obtained their enlarged Lebanon , they would only be in a small majority over the Sunni and Shia Muslims . |
| 52 | As I investigated further , it seemed to become clear that if this question could be answered it could only be in a complex way . |
| 53 | Such an ascription of effect to cause could only be in the form of hypotheses , of varying degrees of face plausibility . |
| 54 | Yes the chassis mounts will take the 4203 The engine will give a lot more torque but you will need an overdrive or the top speed will only be in the mid forties |
| 55 | ‘ There are only two places you can cross from coast-to-coast and one route takes 14 days , so Fusil 's route could only be in one place . ’ |
| 56 | Admittedly , the net pay that could be expected in the carbonates is relatively small , ( perhaps only 10–20 m ) and therefore the potential reserves that could be expected might only be in the order of 10–50 Bcf . |
| 57 | Birthing is woman 's work and thoo 'd only be in t'road . ’ |
| 58 | But I 've decided that I 'll only be in the band as long as I 'm doing other things as well as . |
| 59 | At best , this can only be in relative terms , since the Red Book already forecasts a public sector borrowing requirement for 1993-94 of £32 billion . |
| 60 | Investment can only be in companies or funds that qualify under the BES rules . |