Example sentences of "only [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 2 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |
| 3 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 4 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |
| 6 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 7 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 8 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 9 | This target looks realistic because Corning is only just starting to reap the rewards of patiently pursuing earlier long-term investments . |
| 10 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 11 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 12 | Work organizations are only now beginning to appreciate the need for tension release , for creating regular opportunities to ‘ let it all out ’ at seminars , dinners , training courses , rituals , ceremonies , etc . |
| 13 | With the vibrant Seventies Brit cults only now beginning to get the recognition they deserved , you 'll pay good money for a copy of a rarer title such as Teeny Bop Idol and Punk Rock . |
| 14 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |