Example sentences of "[noun pl] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now this demarcation of activities has only come about by delegation , no control system could enforce these roles . |
| 2 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 3 | However , reports said that NPFL fighters had only intensified their fire , and by the following day full-scale fighting was going on , with Nigerian jets , artillery and warships attacking rebel positions . |
| 4 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 5 | offices as well , but erm , and I know she 's half time and some offices have only got a quarter , but as I say , she 's the busiest person I know and , and she 's |
| 6 | While similar region versus district confrontations elsewhere in Scotland are deliberately being kept low-key , particularly in Labour-dominated areas , there are signs of open warfare in Highland , where the political parties have only limited influence . |
| 7 | Supporters have only read what the press have said . |
| 8 | The only positive aspect of the strike from the Party 's point of view was that the miners had only formulated demands about their conditions of work and life . |
| 9 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 10 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |
| 11 | However , the attention lavished on the Conservative party , and especially on the Conservative Party 's ideas , in the past few years has only served to emphasize the relative neglect of Conservative history and Conservative thought before Mrs Thatcher . |
| 12 | Her fingertips had only fluttered around him in butterfly ecstasy . |
| 13 | The record showed that out of fourteen nuclear public inquiries since 1956 , the nuclear proponents had only lost once . |
| 14 | Some manual workers had only overtaken clerical workers in terms of pay because of the overtime they worked . |
| 15 | The failure of British cinema 's first big drive on the international market-place provoked some serious reflection about why British films had only limited offshore appeal . |
| 16 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 17 | Another participant pointed out that the Northern Ireland budget over the last five years had only increased in line with inflation . |
| 18 | The past two years have only seen the start of the process , and in terms of M4 the process has not been started at all . |
| 19 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 20 | Last May , I wrote that if customers had only limited choice as to where to buy jewellery ‘ then it is every bit as exploitative if the quality is unnecessarily low than if the price is unnecessarily high ’ . |
| 21 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 22 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 23 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 24 | But after dumping their loads and returning to Camp 3 at 24,000ft , the Darc Star team 's problems had only begun . |
| 25 | If the owners of these detectors had only checked the batteries or battery fittings , they would have saved themselves postal costs and would have also avoided the inconvenience of being without their detectors for several weeks . |
| 26 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 27 | Publicly suppressed since the 1920s , these qualities have only survived through the black economy , or through private family oral traditions . |
| 28 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 29 | June Bascombe , who is co-ordinating the displays has only had four items offered so far . |
| 30 | THE recent wild fluctuation in interest rates has only added an extra burden to people already having severe housing problems . |