Example sentences of "[pron] has only [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 2 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 3 | Here , in the tangle of islands and fjords that is Patagonia , the volcanic chain becomes established on the South American continent with Mt Burney , an obscure , almost unknown volcano which has only once been visited by a geologist , in 1911 . |
| 4 | The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions . |
| 5 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 6 | The result is a very distinctive animal , which has only recently been properly classified . |
| 7 | These include ecclesiastical records , and a large collection in the Departmental Archive which has only recently been made available to researchers . |
| 8 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 9 | The infrastructure of teaching hospitals is largely NHS ( rather than university ) funded and there has only recently been a welcome extension of this mechanism to general practice . |
| 10 | ‘ There has only ever been one criteria for choosing a Wedding Present single . |
| 11 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 12 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 13 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 14 | Although the connection between these psychological ideas and sociological observations is highly suggestive , it has only occasionally been studied in the context of fertility and marriage ( see Coleman 1990 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think . |