Example sentences of "had only just be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 2 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 3 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 4 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 10 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 11 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 12 | Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 16 | The price freezes imposed in February had only just been lifted , and producers had raised prices by as much as 60 per cent in two weeks . |
| 17 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 18 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |