Example sentences of "the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
| 8 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ There could be a way to save him , ’ he said , as if the possibility had only just occurred to him . |
| 14 | In others the slowdown has only just begun . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The party 's only just got going and it 's quiet up here , peaceful . |