Example sentences of "only [adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 2 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |
| 3 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 4 | Police are investigating the theft of 30 square metres of turf which had only just been laid at St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church in Owton Manor Lane , Hartlepool . |
| 5 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 6 | he 's only once been beaten at Cheltenham . |
| 7 | First , he is one of a select band of Palace players ( only four in all ) to have made over a hundred consecutive appearances for the club immediately following his debut , and his run of 123 games has only ever been beaten by Johnny McNichol ( 153 ) . |
| 8 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 9 | Until then these infections had only really been seen in people whose natural defences had been damaged by cancer or by drugs which suppress the immune system . |
| 10 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 11 | Britain 's most famous ice-skaters are relaunching their Olympic careers at an ice rink that has only recently been saved from closure . |
| 12 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 13 | ‘ Because the details have only recently been finalised with Paul Lexington . ’ |
| 14 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 15 | British environmental groups had only recently been roused by appeals from Sweden and Norway . |
| 16 | ( It should be noted that the Phase 3 heads ' comments came from a group whose schools had only recently been brought into PNP and that expressions of dissatisfaction were also voiced at equivalent points in Phases 1 and 2 . |