Example sentences of "only [been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threat has not only been partially thwarted by vehicle checkpoints but by close surveillance . |
| 2 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 3 | It had only been recently acknowledged by official bodies that psychology could offer some understanding of young people 's problems . |
| 4 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 5 | The implication is that he has not only been deeply disgusted by the political and social oppression in capitalist and colonial France , but has also been fatally attracted to the entirely new set of social relations apparently emerging in the post-revolutionary situation in the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |