Example sentences of "[pron] has only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 2 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 3 | Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher . |
| 4 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 5 | At $5,550 , IBM Corp 's new 16″ colour Xstation 150 seems pricey , but then it 's built around the Motorola Inc 88110 which has only recently gone into volume production ( UX No 422 ) : thought to clock at 40Mhz IBM says the 150 outperforms its existing Xstation 130 by a factor of six at 115,000 Xstones , and comes with from 6Mb to 22Mb RAM . |
| 6 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 7 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 8 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 9 | The suggestion of a silver thread among the dark men in green makes Gus appear a distinguished elder statesmen , far too distinguished-looking for a man who has only just reached 29 . |
| 10 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 11 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman , who has only just wandered in , should realise that I am responding to points raised earlier by his hon. Friends . |
| 13 | While it might look a bit strange , even antiquated , to anyone who has only ever thought of guitar tuners as pocket sized oblong boxes with LEDs or a needle and a retail price of around forty quid , the Peterson 's ability to accurately tune any musical instrument is known throughout the music industry . |
| 14 | Lastly , they would remove what is undoubtedly , in the case above , the single most important feature needed to understand what is being said : the fact that these two people are involved in moving a piano and A ( a middle-aged man trying to assert his authority ) is already supporting its weight : hence , perhaps , his impatience , breathlessness , and desperate switch from ordering to pleading with B , a youth who has only reluctantly agreed to come along and help . |
| 15 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
| 16 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 17 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 18 | She has only recently returned to full duties , and was treated for shock and minor cuts . |
| 19 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 20 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |
| 21 | He has only ever given me encouragement and support . ’ |
| 22 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 23 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 24 | Such a person may be believed when he says that he has only once tasted marijuana and did not inhale . |
| 25 | It has only just begun . |
| 26 | As the song says , it has only just begun . |
| 27 | It has only just begun . ’ |
| 28 | He said ‘ The RS/6000 is not big now in Hungary , and it has only recently come off the Comecon list . |
| 29 | Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered . |
| 30 | It has only ever had one edition in the Russian — in 1920 — and one German translation in 1922 . |