Example sentences of "it has only [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading .
2 The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) .
3 FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed .
4 Although the connection between these psychological ideas and sociological observations is highly suggestive , it has only occasionally been studied in the context of fertility and marriage ( see Coleman 1990 ) .
5 It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think .
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