Example sentences of "[verb] only [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice micro-corporatism of this sort has only been undertaken with any consistency by local government and their agencies ( such as the enterprise boards ) or by the development agencies ( see , for example , Greater London Council ( 1985 ) and Murray ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 2 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 3 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 4 | Cliff 's tally of 20 League goals in 1963–64 , when he was joint-top scorer with Peter Burridge , has only been exceeded since 1961 by Mark Bright in 1988 and Ian Wright in 1989 , but Cliff again headed our list of scorers in Division Two in 1964–65 with 11 more goals , and he did so in spite of spending several games at centre-half . |
| 5 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 6 | Well , remember that all this equality has only been achieved in one small part of the globe , and then mainly at the expense of the rest of the globe ; and that this inequality , once such a national feature , is now such an international feature that it has led to a bitterly destructive war between rich and poor nations ; and remember that that inequality is fed by an ever-hardening racial antagonism which enlightened men regard as the tragedy of our age . ) |
| 7 | What my Commander-in-Chief had to say to me is something that I will treasure for the rest of my days — and has only been shared with one other . |
| 8 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 9 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 10 | The construction of a large grammar represents a major problem in it 's own right which has only been attempted by well-funded projects . |
| 11 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 12 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the detailed work on which that revision is itself based has only been published in Soviet journals in Russian , so has not stood the test of scrutiny by Western astronomers . |
| 14 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 15 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 16 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 17 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 18 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 19 | A corresponding survey , carried out in Sweden in 1981 , found that orientation courses had only been evaluated in 8 libraries of 34 , one-third of the libraries had evaluated courses in manual information retrieval and about half the libraries with courses in computerized information retrieval had carried out some form of evaluation . |
| 20 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 21 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 22 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 23 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 24 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 25 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 26 | The Roman Emperor Constantine had only been converted in 312 , and not till 433 did St Patrick go to Ireland . |
| 27 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 28 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 29 | A typical example is the 1978 Tremadoc Guidebook comment after the first ascent of Fingerlicker in 1975 , where alone in that guide it was pointed out that the route had only been climbed after two ‘ Yo-Yo 's ’ ( according to the 1975 definition of a Yo-Yo ) . |
| 30 | The structures of Employee Involvement have only been accepted by salaried staff ; shopfloor unions have refused to make a formal commitment to the programme , which is regarded as contrary to the established contractual job-control orientation of workplace trade unions . |