Example sentences of "has only [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surviving Japanese aircraft are few and far between , recent trends to collect and exhibit them are to be encouraged , they represent a fount of experience and knowledge that has only slightly been dipped into . |
| 2 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | King 's 32 was the only other score in double figures , while Greenidge 's 134 out of 211 represented 63.5 per cent of his team 's total , a proportion that has only once been exceeded in all Tests . |
| 14 | Here , in the tangle of islands and fjords that is Patagonia , the volcanic chain becomes established on the South American continent with Mt Burney , an obscure , almost unknown volcano which has only once been visited by a geologist , in 1911 . |
| 15 | Terry was , originally at least , a wing-half who had captured the eye of manager Cyril Spiers , and , after a season ( 1955–56 ) of coming to maturity and settling down to the demands of League football , he put together a run of 214 consecutive League appearances ( 234 with major Cup competitions ) which was a club record at the time and has only once been exceeded by the great John Jackson . |
| 16 | American reports say that the Pershing II , which is only a stretched , possibly over-stretched , Pershing I , has only once been fired successfully after a number of failures , and that over a shorter distance than will be required . |
| 17 | The Bank has only once been sued for regulatory failure , after it rescued Johnson Matthey Bankers ; the case was settled out of court in 1986 in the Bank 's favour . |
| 18 | ‘ There has only ever been one criteria for choosing a Wedding Present single . |
| 19 | First , he is one of a select band of Palace players ( only four in all ) to have made over a hundred consecutive appearances for the club immediately following his debut , and his run of 123 games has only ever been beaten by Johnny McNichol ( 153 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ It has only ever been let in the summer , and no one has been here yet this year except the people last month , folk from Cornwall , I think . |
| 21 | The floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has only ever been seen by the centre 's staff . |
| 22 | Although the connection between these psychological ideas and sociological observations is highly suggestive , it has only occasionally been studied in the context of fertility and marriage ( see Coleman 1990 ) . |
| 23 | He says : ‘ Although the medal has only recently been created , it was a proud and memorable day when we went to the Polish Embassy in London to receive it . ’ |
| 24 | It has only recently been recognised by MAFF experts , and media coverage has been misleading . |
| 25 | The demise of the picture-based magazines caused Doisneau real financial hardship which has only recently been alleviated by the boom in poster and postcard reproductions . |
| 26 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 27 | The value of one of the principal recommendations , the provision of psychiatric care to attempted suicide patients , remains controversial , and it has only recently been subjected to controlled evaluation ( Hawton et al. 1987 ) . |
| 28 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 29 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 30 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ The decision has only recently been made . |