Example sentences of "have only been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression .
2 I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’
3 The vast majority of ornamental metalwork has only been studied from a typological standpoint on the basis of form and decoration .
4 I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race .
5 This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants .
6 In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error .
7 Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions .
8 Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers .
9 Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way .
10 But you 've only been skiing for a short while .
11 Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises .
12 The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) .
13 She had only been daunted for a moment , however .
14 Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike .
15 It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision .
16 He was struck by the discovery of a version of the enzyme which previously had only been reported in a clinical isolate of Salmonella typhimurium from New Zealand
17 Many a case had only been solved by a combination of Morton 's flair and his own instincts .
18 English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years .
19 In recent times , farm incomes in disadvantaged rural areas such as upland N E Scotland have only been maintained by a reduction in farm numbers , an increase in farm size and a fall in farm employment .
20 Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well .
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