Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have only just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Lady has only just come in . |
| 2 | This process has only just begun and is likely to continue until the middle of this decade . |
| 3 | He nodded , relieved that they had left her alone although he knew this business had only just started . |
| 4 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 5 | It is prudent to check each company 's rules before you commit yourself ‘ These contracts have only just started in Britain and so far people have treated them cautiously , ’ says Peter Hargreaves of adviser Hargreaves Lansdowne . |
| 6 | Its internal political development has only just begun . |
| 7 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 8 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 9 | Instead , a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun . |
| 10 | It also enables management to anticipate both beneficial and adverse trends before the event or take evasive action when the evidence of an emerging problem has only just presented itself . |
| 11 | The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies . |
| 12 | Higher education had only just resumed with some semblance of normality after the disruption of the previous decade . |
| 13 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 14 | After ten years of touring and rehearsing , the languid Scots have only just finished their third album . |
| 15 | In RENFE the pruning of little-used rural services has only just begun . |
| 16 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 17 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 18 | Such borrowing from European civilization had only just begun in 1880 . |
| 19 | The search for smaller objects in the outer Solar System has only just started , however . |