Example sentences of "have [been] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been only six weeks at the helm . |
| 2 | Mr Reilly said : ‘ The engine was designed and engineered at our technical development centre in Russelsheim , Germany , and through close co-operation between engineers , designers and manufacturing experts , the total development period has been only four years . ’ |
| 3 | The organisations concerned have asked that details of the comments received be mad public , criticising the level of secrecy surrounding the exercise , but to date , the UKCC 's response , from registrar Colin Ralph , has been only that publication of the consultation report is ‘ possible ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , in the last two decades there has been only one event of sufficient gravity to create stunned , almost disbelieving debate among past and present Baldersdale folk — Hannah Hauxwell herself . |
| 5 | There has been only one Nobel prize in embryology . |
| 6 | There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas , by western blot analysis . |
| 7 | Mrs Zamzam 's land should have been only 25 minutes ' drive across the international frontier . |
| 8 | Surely that would have been only common courtesy ? |
| 9 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 10 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 11 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 12 | There had been only one moment to cause her any undue alarm . |
| 13 | The nearest pod battery had been only thirty metres from the entrance to his stateroom , and no doubt that fact had influenced the would-be assassin . |
| 14 | It did not seem to occur to him that Ramsey had been only eighteen months in an important job for which he was perfectly fitted . |
| 15 | Twenty years previously there had been only 83 sub-committees of standing committees in the House , but by 1976 there were 151 ; during the same period the number of sub-committees in the Senate increased from 88 to 140 . |
| 16 | If there had been only two men holding Alison in the room , this meant that they 'd left her unguarded and she 'd be able to slip away . |
| 17 | But she had been only two years senior to Harriet . |
| 18 | That sighting had been only twelve miles south of this crossroads , yet now there was no sign of any Frenchmen . |
| 19 | The Fair Labor Standards Act ( 1938 ) established a national minimum wage and maximum hours of work , where before there had been only individual state laws . |
| 20 | There had been only piecemeal policies of denationalization in 1979–83 , and indeed the Conservatives had been reluctant to replace state monopolies with privately-owned ones . |
| 21 | They took a small boutique on the Left Bank , where hitherto there had been only antique shops , correctly recognizing that the little street , Rue des Saints Pères , was full of ‘ Laura Ashley spirit ’ . |
| 22 | Luke Alderton had been only three years old when Bart dumped his mother for Grace and his first memories were of tears and endless shouting . |
| 23 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 24 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 25 | Careful reading showed that at best there was 10 per cent heat unaccounted for , but big numbers appeared because Fleischmann and Pons had ‘ extrapolated to rods 10 cm long ’ ( their actual rod in this example had been only 1.25 cm ) without saying what rule they had used to make the extrapolation from measured to assumed . |
| 26 | Although actual cruelty at markets is rare — there have been only 4 cases at Banbury this year , as long as there is a single case the RSPCA will be there . |
| 27 | At the time of writing the Stock Exchange has passed on 185 cases of suspected insider trading to the Department of Trade and Industry since 1980 , of which there have been only twenty-two prosecutions and twelve convictions . |
| 28 | Although there have been only five changes of governing party in Britain since nationalization in 1948 , there have been 21 transport ministers during that time , an average of one less than every two years . |
| 29 | Since eventing began in 1948 , there have been only twelve deaths . |
| 30 | There have been only limited studies which directly address the effect of cholesteryl esters on the stability of biologic membranes . |