Example sentences of "[noun] have only just [be] [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 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Philips Tomascan LX CT Scanner had only just been installed at Walton when the bombings took place . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 17 | The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning , but details have only just been released . |
| 18 | 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 . |