Example sentences of "[noun pl] have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 2 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 3 | Then he frowned , as if her words had only just reached him . |
| 4 | After ten years of touring and rehearsing , the languid Scots have only just finished their third album . |
| 5 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 6 | Mech-Tool Wood Group made slow progress in the last year since many of the oil companies have only recently completed their offshore Safety Risk Assessments . |
| 7 | Work opportunities for Mech-Tool Wood Group continue to move slowly since many of the oil companies have only recently completed offshore Safety Risk Assessments . |
| 8 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 9 | Vice versa , private industries which are heavily subsidised by governments have only partially marketed outputs . |
| 10 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 11 | While the IVIS discs had only loosely defined objectives and were rather vaguely intended as an underlying educational resource , IVIFE discs had very clear objectives . |
| 12 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 13 | ‘ This will rebound on the Government and their difficulties have only just started . ’ |
| 14 | Systematic comparative analysis of management strategies in industrial relations has only recently begun , the major work so far being Gospel and Littler ( 1983 ) which relates to the inter-war period . |
| 15 | The majority of the colonists had only recently lost contact with their families . |
| 16 | Laboratory chemists have only just begun to wake up to this change . |
| 17 | In the absence of detailed historical information other than a claim made by local hunters that great spotted cuckoos were absent from Guadix until 1962 ( ref. 8 ) , Soler and Möller assumed that cuckoos had only recently colonized the Guadix area . |
| 18 | If they wished to prevent Labour forming a government , they would have to come to an arrangement with Baldwin , rather than any other Conservative ; and since the Liberals had only just fought an election opposing Baldwin 's policy of Protection , this would be a difficult course for them to take . |
| 19 | Here the drill rig , which after numerous delays had only recently arrived from the mining camps of Northern Quebec , was boring downwards at a rate of about 30 m per day . |
| 20 | The police had only recently organized a stake-out in a house just down the road , watching and waiting for a serial murderer to call in at his mother 's council flat to collect his laundry . |
| 21 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 22 | Our respective worlds have only recently met . |
| 23 | Only Sara seemed composed and judicial ; looking directly at Gerald she said : ‘ The police have only just started their questioning ; I think we should be very careful about what we say to them . |
| 24 | The general law is somewhat ambivalent on parents and children , and indeed the rights of children have only recently begun to be recognised . |
| 25 | However , two additional issues have only recently begun to be explored : first , the extent to which the work of informal care-giving also incurs extra expenditure , over and above any additional costs arising directly out of disablement ; and , secondly , the extent to which the costs of disablement are in fact borne by carers and other members of their households , because the incomes of disabled and elderly people themselves are simply too low . |
| 26 | In RENFE the pruning of little-used rural services has only just begun . |
| 27 | The windows have heavy moulded oak mullions mortised into massive oak sills and lintels , a reminder that in the heyday of the Lugg valley , medieval stone mullions had only recently gone out of fashion . |
| 28 | Salisbury and Phil Tufnell ( 0-132 ) never taxed the Indian batsmen , while England 's batsmen have only intermittently coped with the Indian spinners in both Tests . |
| 29 | The Japanese male seems to think that women have only recently developed skills and abilities they never had before . |
| 30 | Local power authorities have only recently considered what waste disposal will cost ratepayers , when they compare nuclear energy to coal or hydroelectric alternatives . |