Example sentences of "[adv] just been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The price freezes imposed in February had only just been lifted , and producers had raised prices by as much as 60 per cent in two weeks . |
| 32 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 33 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 34 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 35 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 36 | This is this is only just been laid on the table obviously this morning , has n't it ? |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 39 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 40 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 41 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 42 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 43 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 44 | The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning , but details have only just been released . |
| 45 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 46 | Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter . |
| 47 | A widow who 's only just been allowed home from hospital after suffering a stroke has been robbed as she lay in bed . |
| 48 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 49 | Indeed , they are utterances which are interpretations of utterances which have only just been processed by the hearer . |
| 50 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 51 | Aurorae have not just been mistaken for dragons . |
| 52 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 53 | He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat , nor indeed a Garrick Club tie . |
| 54 | I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there . |
| 55 | ‘ Probably just been fed , ’ said David . |
| 56 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 57 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 58 | Gilbert 's latest novel , The Death of the Author , has also just been published . |
| 59 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 60 | Occasionally occupying a perch not a million miles from The Black Crowes and unafraid to cross the bridge from ‘ metal ’ to ‘ mayhem ’ , Newspeak are creating a fusion nicked from the frankly , ‘ heavier ’ stalls of the pop market and the kind of tunes that you could probably whistle if your eardrums had n't just been blown away . |