Example sentences of "[adv] just been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal , drawn up by an advisory group of industrialists and academics known as the DTI 's aviation committee , was originally put to the department last November , but has only just been made public . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ? |
| 4 | The car 's only just been serviced so I 'll take it back to the garage . |
| 5 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 6 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 9 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 10 | And if you have only just been inspired to take up the sport , maybe on the back of the Redford film A River Runs Through It , the club will allow a small number of beginners . |
| 11 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 12 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 13 | Because erm the actual functional group on the end it 's only just it 's only just been moved |
| 14 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 15 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 16 | We ca n't look into it because it 's only just been given to us . |
| 17 | Krabbe 's manager Jos Hermens and panel president Wolfgang Schoeppe have refused to comment on the findings of the reports which have only just been completed and were supposed to be kept secret until the final ruling was announced . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 22 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 23 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 24 | He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’ |
| 25 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 26 | It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff . |
| 27 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 30 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |