Example sentences of "[pron] be only just [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 2 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 3 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |
| 4 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 5 | ‘ My darling ! ’ he whispered hoarsely , and , as if trying to believe what her eyes were telling him , his arm tightened about her and , ‘ Are those tears , the ones you 're only just managing to hold back , tears of joy ? ’ he asked tensely . |
| 6 | Although she was only just learning to speak , on spotting one she would shout ‘ mushoosh , mushoosh ’ ' much to the amusement of passers by . |
| 7 | We are only just beginning to realize from research just how much this is so . |
| 8 | We are only just beginning to plan these new general SVQs . |
| 9 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . , |
| 13 | And we 're only just beginning to realise that . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |
| 15 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 16 | We 're only just beginning to think about it . ’ |
| 17 | There is a rich erm , history of women in Scotland and we 're only just beginning to discover that and publish that , and I think that we will establish traditions by doing that . |
| 18 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 19 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 20 | The debate is a profound one and it is only just beginning to reach out to a wider audience . |
| 21 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 22 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |