Example sentences of "[noun sg] have only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 2 | For reasons unknown this privilege has only recently been denied the young rugby followers of today . |
| 3 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 4 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ The decision has only recently been made . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Terry Goldsmith has only ever watched the Gold Cup race run on television . |
| 7 | For both occupational strata female employees earn about 60 per cent of the wages of their male counterparts , and this discrimination against and exploitation of women 's labour has only marginally decreased through legislation such as the Equal Pay Act of 1970 . |
| 8 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 9 | The role played by law in structuring and regulating relations between government and industry has only recently attracted the attention of academics working in the field of policy analysis . |
| 10 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 11 | Endobiliary biopsy has only recently been introduced after the manufacture of biopsy forceps that are small enough to enter the biliary tree without a sphincterotomy . |
| 12 | But as this noble institution has only ever rewarded women writers for being ladylike — Oldie pin-ups , maybe — or for assuming the pompous , androgynous mantle of — God help us — George Eliot , her exclusion can be read as a back-handed compliment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The body requires food for a number of reasons , which scientific study has only relatively recently revealed . |
| 15 | BSL research has only just begun and a great deal more will emerge in the coming years . |
| 16 | The Country Club has only recently been expanded to incorporate even more amenities … a delightful children 's pool . |
| 17 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 18 | At eighteen his apprenticeship in rhetorical violence and grievous bodily harm had only just begun . |
| 19 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 20 | The car 's only just been serviced so I 'll take it back to the garage . |
| 21 | It is this multivocal quality that distinguishes prose fiction from poetry , as Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian theorist whose work has only recently become well-known in the West , observed : |
| 22 | The immunity enjoyed by clownfish from the venomous tentacles of the anemone has only recently become properly understood . |
| 23 | Saying that the Framing Opinions campaign has only just begun , English Heritage chief executive , Jennifer Page concludes that authorities and voluntary groups from national to local level must be prepared to offer help and advice to anyone wanting to alter a building . |
| 24 | The election campaign has only just got under way , and Mr Le Pen may yet reclaim the limelight . |
| 25 | Questions must also be asked about why the sprinter has only now , after five months of considerable time and expense from lawyers , advisers and athletics officials , revealed information that even Morphitis did not know about . |
| 26 | Unlike thinking , which has been discussed by philosophers and systematised by logicians ever since the Ancient Greeks , problem solving has only recently become an object of study . |
| 27 | The hon. Lady has only just come in . |
| 28 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 29 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 30 | 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 . |