Example sentences of "only [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is generally the case , nevertheless , that in the 30 years since the signing of the Treaty , EC policies have only rarely been developed in a framework which explicitly evaluates the spatial impact of those policies . |
| 3 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 4 | Nathan was at the foot , for he had only lately been promoted to take part in all of the firm 's business , having proved himself well able . |
| 5 | It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff . |
| 6 | ‘ This we consider to be a retrograde and unnecessary step , ’ particularly since these powers had only just been vested in the NRA under the Water Act , he said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charles felt a bit starchy in battle dress which had only just been issued to the TA . |
| 9 | There was a smell of coffee in the air and a feeling that every room had only just been vacated by somebody . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 11 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Because erm the actual functional group on the end it 's only just it 's only just been moved |
| 19 | I 've only just been talking about what we 're going to do . |
| 20 | For some reason I have n't got to the bottom of yet , I have only just been informed of your arrival . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 23 | The attack happened in the early hours of Sunday morning , but details have only just been released . |
| 24 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 25 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |