Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] has only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 3 | In art history a large part of electronic data processing takes the form of cataloguing works of art , and only a small proportion of research concerns pattern recognition or digitization of images ; in musicology it has only recently become possible to study scores directly input to the computer without the mediation of alphanumeric code . |
| 4 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 5 | The suggestion of a silver thread among the dark men in green makes Gus appear a distinguished elder statesmen , far too distinguished-looking for a man who has only just reached 29 . |
| 6 | Lastly , they would remove what is undoubtedly , in the case above , the single most important feature needed to understand what is being said : the fact that these two people are involved in moving a piano and A ( a middle-aged man trying to assert his authority ) is already supporting its weight : hence , perhaps , his impatience , breathlessness , and desperate switch from ordering to pleading with B , a youth who has only reluctantly agreed to come along and help . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These include ecclesiastical records , and a large collection in the Departmental Archive which has only recently been made available to researchers . |
| 9 | — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition . |
| 10 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |