Example sentences of "has only be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment .
2 But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates .
3 The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner .
4 During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community .
5 He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip .
6 Due to lack of time , contact with Churches has only been on an informal basis .
7 There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue .
8 The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas .
9 SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years .
10 What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years .
11 The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review .
12 Exemplar , which has only been in development since the beginning of the year ( UX No 423 ) , will be used for creating , storing and retrieving application objects across multiple platforms and networks .
13 Marian welcomes the more interventionist role available to the Court under the new Act which has only been in force since October 1991 .
14 Since the First Directive has only been in operation for a matter of weeks , much has still to be learned about its full impact .
15 It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing .
16 The system has only been in place for a month but already , says ‘ we are seeing the benefits . ’
17 If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done .
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