Example sentences of "have only [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman on the dole in a Sunderland sink estate tells me she has only voluntarily paid rent for two weeks in three years . |
| 2 | But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general . |
| 3 | For both occupational strata female employees earn about 60 per cent of the wages of their male counterparts , and this discrimination against and exploitation of women 's labour has only marginally decreased through legislation such as the Equal Pay Act of 1970 . |
| 4 | It also enables management to anticipate both beneficial and adverse trends before the event or take evasive action when the evidence of an emerging problem has only just presented itself . |
| 5 | Planning permission was granted two months ago but the generating company , National Power , has only just decided to go ahead . |
| 6 | Strongly independent all his life , John Granger did n't let blindness change his lifestyle , and although now in his nineties has only just moved into a sheltered flat in Oxford . |
| 7 | Now twenty-four , she came to London originally from Gloucestershire , and has only just moved ‘ south of the river ’ to start a new job . |
| 8 | — 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 . |
| 9 | The computer evidence problem has only just arisen . |
| 10 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THE Queen 's cousin , Sir Angus Oglivy , has bought himself an early Christmas present — a Zike , the invention launched last summer by Sir Clive Sinclair but which has only just reached the shops at £499 . |
| 14 | The program has only just reached the material development loop , but it is nonetheless quite useful to look at its progress and comment on the development so far . |
| 15 | My son has only just reached his majority , and I understand he is in no immediate financial need . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S ‘ greenest ’ car is the Subaru Vivio 660cc which has only just gone on sale . |
| 17 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 18 | It has only just begun . |
| 19 | ‘ Down To Earth ’ will prove that she has not only mastered here medium , but that she has only just begun . |
| 20 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 21 | As the song says , it has only just begun . |
| 22 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
| 23 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 24 | Instead , a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun . |
| 25 | Its internal political development has only just begun . |
| 26 | BSL research has only just begun and a great deal more will emerge in the coming years . |
| 27 | This process has only just begun and is likely to continue until the middle of this decade . |
| 28 | The release of version 2.0 has only just begun , yet the company is already plugging version 3.0 . |
| 29 | Saying that the Framing Opinions campaign has only just begun , English Heritage chief executive , Jennifer Page concludes that authorities and voluntary groups from national to local level must be prepared to offer help and advice to anyone wanting to alter a building . |
| 30 | Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher . |