Example sentences of "only [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hambros Jersey contended that the jurisdiction conferred by this rule can only properly be exercised by analogy to R.S.C. , Ord. 11 , so that leave should not be granted unless the case falls within one of the paragraphs of Ord. 11 , r. 1(1) . |
| 3 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 4 | Harris has argued that the value of life can only sensibly be taken to be that value that those alive place on their lives . |
| 5 | In the first place , as knowledge of the syntax , phonology and semantics of various languages has increased , it has become clear that there are specific phenomena that can only naturally be described by recourse to contextual concepts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 8 | I 've only just been looking for since then . |
| 9 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 10 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 11 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 12 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 13 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 14 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 15 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 16 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |
| 17 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 18 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 19 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 20 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 21 | This is this is only just been laid on the table obviously this morning , has n't it ? |
| 22 | Police are investigating the theft of 30 square metres of turf which had only just been laid at St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church in Owton Manor Lane , Hartlepool . |
| 23 | I 've only just been talking about what we 're going to do . |
| 24 | But like all the other previous employees , he 's only just been told about the loan : |
| 25 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 26 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 27 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 28 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 29 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 30 | Indeed , they are utterances which are interpretations of utterances which have only just been processed by the hearer . |