Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have only just [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 2 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 3 | It was disappointing to discover on asking if I could have them to find that the museum had only just got round to registering what appeared to be Audubon 's proofs . |
| 4 | I could see that the picture had only just started . |
| 5 | Soon my working day was over , but the night had only just begun , the streets and piazzas just beginning to hum with life . |
| 6 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 7 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 8 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 9 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 10 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 11 | The program has only just reached the material development loop , but it is nonetheless quite useful to look at its progress and comment on the development so far . |
| 12 | While the trend toward increasing the integration has only just begun , we are still awaiting Frame Technology 's launch of FrameMaker onto the Macintosh and , possibly , OS/2 Presentation Manager , it is in this direction that desktop publishing is undoubtedly heading during the next few years . |
| 13 | But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best . |
| 14 | Only Sara seemed composed and judicial ; looking directly at Gerald she said : ‘ The police have only just started their questioning ; I think we should be very careful about what we say to them . |
| 15 | Cos I thought well the couple had only just walked up there and I thought to myself oh well he might meet up with them , you know . |
| 16 | ‘ There could be a way to save him , ’ he said , as if the possibility had only just occurred to him . |
| 17 | In others the slowdown has only just begun . |
| 18 | This may not have been immediately obvious from the results of the 1935 General Election , for the Party had only just accepted Attlee as its leader on the eve of the election . |
| 19 | ‘ The party 's only just got going and it 's quiet up here , peaceful . |
| 20 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |