Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have only [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 2 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The upheaval in British banking has only started . |
| 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 | In 1801 students enrolled in schools of all kinds numbered no more than one in a thousand , and by Nicholas 's death this figure had only risen to six . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Scanning teletext for the last 2 days has only revealed ‘ Gerry Francis has denied rumours he is selling Bardsley to Leeds ’ |
| 9 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nenna 's character was faulty , but she had the instinct to see what made other people unhappy , and this instinct had only failed her once , in the case of her own husband . |
| 12 | The 24 year old student had only started his university course this year . |
| 13 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 14 | For social Darwinists like Herbert Spencer , evolutionary theory demonstrated scientifically what earlier social scientists had only grasped in moral terms . |
| 15 | This situation has only evolved gradually . |
| 16 | The Scottish star had only agreed to run if selected for the 1,500m but a communication breakdown meant she was chosen for 3,000m instead . |
| 17 | Until the 1950s , the news in daily papers had only limited competition from radio and virtually none from TV . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office had only given him permission to join the Army on the understanding that he would return to Abyssinia when his leave expired . |
| 19 | In recent years , however , the Public Trustee has only had a small and declining proportion of the total work of trusteeship and executorship ( see p. 114 ) , and in 1972 a Committee of Enquiry recommended that no new work should be taken on , and that the office be wound up and merged with that of the Official Solicitor . |
| 20 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 21 | Three years later in October 1904 , she was earning 11s , while her male contemporaries had only reached 8 or 95 , However , she never advanced far beyond this , and in March 1909 , she was still only earning 12s 6d , eight years after starting work . |
| 22 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 23 | Add to this the facts that each chief executive has only limited authority over many of his staff and that much of the finance of this complex body is handled by a separate company accountable to Parliament , and it might well be enough to make Lord Hanson heave or Tiny Rowland throw in the towel . |
| 24 | Such energies have only existed in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang . |
| 25 | Such cells have only achieved efficiencies of 5–6 per cent , due mainly to problems with the junction between the two solids . |
| 26 | And Charles 's stubborn attitude has only made matters worse . |
| 27 | Publicly suppressed since the 1920s , these qualities have only survived through the black economy , or through private family oral traditions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The desire to understand the development of early Anglo-Saxon society as a specific contribution to the more general study of past human behaviour has only emerged in recent years . |
| 30 | Most of these people have only seen a second half since the police closed the Oval club . |