Example sentences of "only just [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 2 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 3 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 4 | These have to be the finest among American concertos : the Barber is standard repertoire now , but Serenade ( after Plato , ‘ in praise of love ’ ) is only just beginning to emerge as one of Bernstein 's highly select group of masterpieces — about time too . |
| 5 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 6 | We are only just beginning to realize from research just how much this is so . |
| 7 | Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth . |
| 8 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 9 | We 're only just beginning to think about it . ’ |
| 10 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 11 | But one day , after that first programme , some friends from Halifax arrived with a little black and white Border collie pup , so small he could only just manage to get over the doorstep . |
| 12 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 13 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 14 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 15 | I 've only just started to cook in a convection oven , ’ Clare said apologetically . |
| 16 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 17 | Well I shall be in a minute , I 've only just got to go in the kitchen and get it . |
| 18 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |