Example sentences of "have only just [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 2 | However , if a sentence has only just been heard , subjects should be able to tell the difference between that sentence and all other sentences — even sentences which mean the same . |
| 3 | Britain has lagged behind , and the committee for the approval of protocols proposed by the Clothier report has only just been announced by the Department of Health . |
| 4 | The proposal , drawn up by an advisory group of industrialists and academics known as the DTI 's aviation committee , was originally put to the department last November , but has only just been made public . |
| 5 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 6 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 7 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 8 | Industry has only just been restored to normal after being reduced to a three-day working week . |
| 9 | The report also notes that owing to serious technical difficulties a new assembly building has only just been commissioned , which means that nuclear-warhead production has had to continue in old buildings which should have been closed down . |
| 10 | Cos we need to cos we need to sort of all hands to the pump next week cos we 've got a big change-over Yeah but I know ink well no cos the leaflet he 's got has only just been approved and it 's going out next week yeah well I mean you 're to ha you 're to handle their enquiries er deal with their enquiries and then tell them to phone yeah yeah yeah but you see it 's the mailing that 's gone out and and then he 's got to do some advertising first two weeks in Feb . |
| 11 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 12 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 13 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 14 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 15 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 16 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 17 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 18 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 19 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 20 | The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division . |
| 21 | It so happened that when John approached the manager and his wife they had only just been moved to the pub with the brief to try and improve relations between the pub and the local community . |
| 22 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |
| 23 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 24 | It had only just been born but it could talk properly and everything |
| 25 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 26 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 27 | Streets and squares had only just been marked out with pegs and twine amid the clutter . |
| 28 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 29 | Police are investigating the theft of 30 square metres of turf which had only just been laid at St Patrick 's Roman Catholic Church in Owton Manor Lane , Hartlepool . |
| 30 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |