Example sentences of "[am/are] only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 2 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 3 | It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency . |
| 4 | We are only just starting , thanks to you . ’ |
| 5 | Here we are , thought Joan , surveying the garden through half-closed eyes , in mid-April and the daffodils and narcissi are only just in their prime . |
| 6 | His ears are only just covered by his hair above , as the barber , out of respect for the empire , keeps the hair in his head and cheeks short by continual trimming . |
| 7 | Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed . |
| 8 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The idea that we want to be deal-makers all the time is something I would n't subscribe to , ’ he says , then adds , ‘ but we are only just starting ’ . |
| 11 | We are only just realising that this is the first calling from which all else must flow . |
| 12 | Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries . |
| 13 | ‘ The view is that the middle tier will have to merge , and we are only just seeing the beginning of this , ’ Michael Jenkin , Glanville 's managing director , told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 14 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 15 | Some employers are only just getting round to formalising recruitment and retention policies - and all that goes with them — it may be that you are one step ahead of them in attempting to update yourself appropriately . |
| 16 | A decade later we are only just beginning to find ways of alleviating some experiences related to such stress ( Pound and Mills , 1985 ) and seriously addressing the role of social support as a protection from depression ( Koziarski et al . , |
| 17 | Unfortunately many of the millions of tonnes of maize pledged to Mozambique during the drought are only just arriving . |
| 18 | Many of the factories started in the late 1980s are only just beginning to produce . |
| 19 | These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects . |
| 20 | While there are only just under 200 women registered at the centre , AMES hopes it will soon expand . |
| 21 | If this is a correct analysis of the situation , the consequences for our disciplines may be far-reaching in unexpected ways which are only just beginning to be noticed . |
| 22 | The male rate croons a post-coital song consisting of bursts of sound between one and three seconds long that are only just above human hearing . |
| 23 | The mites are only just beneath the skin . |
| 24 | You conduct most of the important interviews and interrogations yourself and afterwards you dictate very sketchy accounts which are only just adequate to keep the files up to date . ’ |
| 25 | In species like " Ophiophthalmus " granifera Koehler , 1922 and O. cataleimmoida ( H. L. Clark , 1911 ) the proximal dorsal arm plates are only just contiguous . |
| 26 | The implications of these patterns , elucidated principally by Bill Cummins and others , are only just beginning to be appreciated . |
| 27 | Our ideas of how these originated and fitted into the early Church hierarchy are only just developing , but already the pattern is becoming clearer . |
| 28 | These contradictions will be marked in the work produced under these conditions in ways that we are only just beginning to be able to imagine . |
| 29 | Far from reaching the end of the road , we are only just beginning ! |
| 30 | We are only just beginning to plan these new general SVQs . |