Example sentences of "be only just [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are only just beginning to realize from research just how much this is so . |
| 2 | Even though Plato wrote these words over two thousand years ago , we in the modern western world are only just beginning to resonate in harmony with his tune of truth . |
| 3 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 4 | One of the problems is at this very stage that the act is so new off the statute book that authorities , at the moment , under all the other pressures they 're having to meet , are only just beginning to put together their new policies . |
| 5 | It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency . |
| 6 | We are only just beginning to plan these new general SVQs . |
| 7 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |
| 8 | Secondly , social scientists are only just beginning to develop procedures for evaluating the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design ; and , thirdly , little is known about the conditions under which these innovative job designs persist across time and diffuse across companies and countries . |
| 9 | We are only just beginning to recognize that if we take this attitude , we are denying to arts and letters , and to the criticism of them , any bearing at all on public life — including , for instance , public education . |
| 10 | These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects . |
| 11 | A decade later we are only just beginning to find ways of alleviating some experiences related to such stress ( Pound and Mills , 1985 ) and seriously addressing the role of social support as a protection from depression ( Koziarski et al . , |
| 12 | ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ Our education reforms are only just beginning to bite . |
| 14 | Many of the factories started in the late 1980s are only just beginning to produce . |
| 15 | ‘ My darling ! ’ he whispered hoarsely , and , as if trying to believe what her eyes were telling him , his arm tightened about her and , ‘ Are those tears , the ones you 're only just managing to hold back , tears of joy ? ’ he asked tensely . |
| 16 | And we 're only just beginning to realise that . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |
| 18 | So it looks as if er nature has kind of erm struck a bargain in this respect , that each parent can contribute exactly half , but I think it 's , we 're only just beginning to find out about what happens then and my guess is about internal conflict between genes because I strongly suspect that there must be a lot of that going on because , as I think you 've rightly seen , if we take this view of evolution as selecting for individual genes , then we would expect conflict even within the gender . |
| 19 | There is a rich erm , history of women in Scotland and we 're only just beginning to discover that and publish that , and I think that we will establish traditions by doing that . |
| 20 | We 're only just beginning to think about it . ’ |
| 21 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 22 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 23 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 24 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 25 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 26 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 27 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 28 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 29 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 30 | These have to be the finest among American concertos : the Barber is standard repertoire now , but Serenade ( after Plato , ‘ in praise of love ’ ) is only just beginning to emerge as one of Bernstein 's highly select group of masterpieces — about time too . |