Example sentences of "only be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 2 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 6 | The supposed decline in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would explain why the air-breathing animals had only been created in the later stages of the earth 's history . |
| 7 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |
| 8 | The Kitemark on a product will indicate that it has not only been made to a published specification , but that it has been independently tested by BSI as well . |
| 9 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 10 | The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum . |
| 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 | This belief has only been strengthened in the post-war period when indeed the division of Europe and the division of Germany were in fact physically the same thing . |
| 13 | This species has only been recorded from the eastern Atlantic from SW . |
| 14 | O. globifera has only been recorded from the eastern Atlantic from the Bay of Biscay , Off NW . |
| 15 | A. abyssorum has only been recorded from the Eastern Atlantic and Davis Strait . |
| 16 | This species has only been recorded from the tropical western Atlantic off Fernandina , Florida 486 m . |
| 17 | This species has only been recorded from the western Atlantic off the Georges Bank , off Cape cod 184 m . |
| 18 | O. troscheli has only been recorded from the western Atlantic ; from Bermuda 796 m . |
| 19 | The vast majority of ornamental metalwork has only been studied from a typological standpoint on the basis of form and decoration . |
| 20 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 25 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 26 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 27 | A. palmeri has only been found in the tropical western Atlantic in comparatively shallow water . |
| 28 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |