Example sentences of "[modal v] have only [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun . |
| 2 | The 22-year-old may have only recently started thinking about playing for Scotland , but it has quickly become the most important goal in his life . |
| 3 | er the building er effectively would have only just commenced at that stage |
| 4 | After all , they reasoned , if this was 2.30 in Glasgow , they would have only just got to a club , ready for a full night 's dancing and drinking till the almost daylight hour of 5.30am . |
| 5 | Contamination was calculated from the concentrations in the aspirated water ( Table IV ) ; this would have only minimally increased ( 0.2–7.4% ) these values , except for iron , for which the concentrations could therefore only be estimated ( 3.5 µM in normal gastric juice ) , assuming that about one third of the recorded values ( that is ca 1.7 µM ; Table III ) was a result of unavoidable contamination of samples . |
| 6 | In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection . |
| 7 | Similarly they will have only just negotiated the entry of four new members — Austria , Sweden , Finland and Norway . |