Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] just [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 2 | However , if a sentence has only just been heard , subjects should be able to tell the difference between that sentence and all other sentences — even sentences which mean the same . |
| 3 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 4 | Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter . |
| 5 | The car 's only just been serviced so I 'll take it back to the garage . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 8 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 11 | Occasionally occupying a perch not a million miles from The Black Crowes and unafraid to cross the bridge from ‘ metal ’ to ‘ mayhem ’ , Newspeak are creating a fusion nicked from the frankly , ‘ heavier ’ stalls of the pop market and the kind of tunes that you could probably whistle if your eardrums had n't just been blown away . |
| 12 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 18 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 19 | Aurorae have not just been mistaken for dragons . |
| 20 | The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning , but details have only just been released . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But the histone H4 document has n't just been copied , it has been subjected to natural selection . |