Example sentences of "it have only [adv] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 2 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 3 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Although the connection between these psychological ideas and sociological observations is highly suggestive , it has only occasionally been studied in the context of fertility and marriage ( see Coleman 1990 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think . |
| 6 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 7 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 8 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 9 | Among the fragments of blackened paper he saw a used safety match , the unburnt half of the stem clean and white as if it had only recently been struck . |
| 10 | When he arrived to head the Department of Drawings in 1931 it had only recently been split from the paintings department . |
| 11 | Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ? |
| 12 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 13 | Because erm the actual functional group on the end it 's only just it 's only just been moved |
| 14 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 15 | It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff . |