Example sentences of "they have only [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 2 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 3 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 4 | These problems appear to be real enough and to be indistinguishable from other problems but in fact they have only been created by ourselves . |
| 5 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 6 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 7 | So far , they have only been described from localities in the Netherlands and Germany but another example may be present in N.E. England ( Clark in press ) . |