Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons unknown this privilege has only recently been denied the young rugby followers of today . |
| 2 | The body requires food for a number of reasons , which scientific study has only relatively recently revealed . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady has only just come in . |
| 4 | This process has only just begun and is likely to continue until the middle of this decade . |
| 5 | Its internal political development has only just begun . |
| 6 | Instead , a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun . |
| 7 | It also enables management to anticipate both beneficial and adverse trends before the event or take evasive action when the evidence of an emerging problem has only just presented itself . |
| 8 | The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies . |
| 9 | But as this noble institution has only ever rewarded women writers for being ladylike — Oldie pin-ups , maybe — or for assuming the pompous , androgynous mantle of — God help us — George Eliot , her exclusion can be read as a back-handed compliment . |
| 10 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 11 | There is a real element of truth in it if we conclude , as I think we must , that in those who have failed to come to terms with the demands of a civilized existence any representative of that existence can be seen as an incitement to protest , especially if , as in the case of the police , that representative has only too obvious a. resemblance to the forbidding father of early childhood with whom the individual has not come to terms because of chronic irresolution of the Oedipal dilemma . |
| 12 | Endobiliary biopsy has only recently been introduced after the manufacture of biopsy forceps that are small enough to enter the biliary tree without a sphincterotomy . |
| 13 | The search for smaller objects in the outer Solar System has only just started , however . |