Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] has only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 2 | Britain has lagged behind , and the committee for the approval of protocols proposed by the Clothier report has only just been announced by the Department of Health . |
| 3 | The election campaign has only just got under way , and Mr Le Pen may yet reclaim the limelight . |
| 4 | Saying that the Framing Opinions campaign has only just begun , English Heritage chief executive , Jennifer Page concludes that authorities and voluntary groups from national to local level must be prepared to offer help and advice to anyone wanting to alter a building . |
| 5 | The mainland economy has only recently opened up with the growth of tourism : nor has it opened up to women and men ( or indeed Black and white workers ) in an exactly similar way . |
| 6 | The floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has only ever been seen by the centre 's staff . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The computer evidence problem has only just arisen . |
| 9 | In most European countries insider dealing has only just become an offence , thanks to a 1989 European Community directive . |
| 10 | Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip . |
| 11 | But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general . |
| 12 | Terry Goldsmith has only ever watched the Gold Cup race run on television . |
| 13 | The Country Club has only recently been expanded to incorporate even more amenities … a delightful children 's pool . |
| 14 | Unlike thinking , which has been discussed by philosophers and systematised by logicians ever since the Ancient Greeks , problem solving has only recently become an object of study . |
| 15 | The Christmas Eve assault has only just come to light because the 13-year-old victim was too terrified to report it earlier . |
| 16 | BSL research has only just begun and a great deal more will emerge in the coming years . |
| 17 | Though the exact nature of the symbiosis between pastoralists and plains game has only recently become understood , administrators in close contact with the Masai could see that somehow the two did co-exist , and they took exception to the idea that in order for game to thrive the Masai would have to be removed . |