Example sentences of "is only just " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 2 | Trowark style is large , enveloping and extremely cosy with an almost indestructible quality — one five-year-old jumper seen by The Independent is only just beginning to look ‘ broken in ’ after years of frequent machine washing and hard wear . |
| 3 | To give an idea of the desolation of some of the villages ( in the Saratov area ) ( may mention that the village of Kano , in the Markstadt district , which has a normal population of over 3,000 , has now only 1,100 inhabitants left , and remember the winter is only just beginning . |
| 4 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 5 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 6 | This target looks realistic because Corning is only just starting to reap the rewards of patiently pursuing earlier long-term investments . |
| 7 | The dismantling of that establishment is only just getting under way . |
| 8 | His own father had given him his creed for life — ‘ the best is only just good enough for you ’ — and he himself preached that doctrine until the day he died , in 1987 . |
| 9 | Now it is only just over 4 per cent — below the average for the European Community . |
| 10 | They have weathered every kind of financial storm over the centuries and have skills which the public sector is only just beginning to learn . |
| 11 | This role is only just being appreciated by even quite sophisticated organizations . |
| 12 | Our new insight into the structure of glass is only just beginning . |
| 13 | Once this is done , Japan 's electronics companies will begin to compete in a market that is only just emerging — selling software packages for personal computers . |
| 14 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 15 | Those who are newly bereaved and naturally dread the loneliness of returning to an empty house should be visited frequently in their own homes ; and when you are able to persuade them to get out of their own four walls as much as possible for fresh air and exercise and to meet others and visit relatives , it can be a considerable help if you can bring them home and go in with them for a cup of tea or a chat , even if it is only just for a quarter of an hour . |
| 16 | Sharpe , meanwhile , is only just short of breaking Art Monk 's NFL record of 106 catches in a season , set in 1984 . |
| 17 | ‘ Miss Hardbroom , I was the frog in the potion laboratory , the one you found in the corridor , and the potion I took is only just wearing off , that 's why I have n't any feet at the moment . |
| 18 | The ability to display airframes and artifacts within such a building is only just beginning to be capitalised upon by NAM . |
| 19 | My hair is only just past my shoulder and I 'd love to have it down to my waist . |
| 20 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV 's days as a top politician may be over , but his career as a movie star is only just beginning . |
| 21 | It is only just over 100 years since the last major ‘ battle ’ in the USA , at Wounded Knee , in December 1890 . |
| 22 | Version 5 , which is only just available , will , no doubt , bring even more choices and I look forward to exploring it . |
| 23 | While people may even find themselves avoiding others who would be understanding , precisely because their concern may threaten to breach fragile defences and bring on the ‘ crack-up ’ that feels as if it is only just being fended off , as it is . |
| 24 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 25 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 26 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 27 | Gamma is a lovely telescopic double , with equal components , but as the angular separation is only just over 8 seconds of arc it is not resolvable with binoculars . |
| 28 | It is only just inside Ophiuchus , near the Scorpion 's head . |
| 29 | Also in the constellation is M16 , the Eagle Nebula , which consists of a galactic cluster together with an emission nebula ; the guide star is Gamma Scuti ( 4.7 ) , and the Eagle Nebula is only just over the Scutum boundary into Serpens . |
| 30 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |