Example sentences of "have only [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue .
2 What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years .
3 And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ?
4 He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective .
5 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
6 ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says .
7 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
8 The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
9 One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks …
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