Example sentences of "[noun] have only [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 2 | Known as the Cabinet War Rooms , the complex has only been open to the public since 1983 . |
| 3 | Conventionally this data has only been available from a separate source/data base . |
| 4 | The Glass Pig has only been open a couple of weeks , but it 's already busy and helping to break down barriers . |
| 5 | The advantage of negligent misstatement over normal negligence claims is that it can be used where the loss has only been economic , although it is not restricted to this . |
| 6 | Its Nine Elms terminal had only been open a week when in 1838 the London and South-Western announced the running of eight special trains on Derby Day to Kingston , the nearest station to Epsom . |
| 7 | National data on the proportion of households sharing kitchens , bathrooms , and other amenities have only been available from the census since 1951 . |
| 8 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 9 | Especially when my own husband has only been dead for just over a week . |
| 10 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 11 | This legislation had been hailed as a powerful weapon with which to seize drug barons ' fortunes but up to May last year police and Customs investigators had only been able to confiscate £11 million . |
| 12 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 13 | It would be churlish to suggest Lewis fights under a flag of convenience or that his status as world champion has only been able to be enjoyed by default . |
| 14 | Bought deals have only been possible with Big Bang and the advent of large well capitalised securities firms , but the risks being taken on are extremely large . |
| 15 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 16 | Although CD-A has only been available commercially since 1983 , we can estimate its likely performance over ten years and use a mix of actual and projected penetrations in our analysis . |
| 17 | The man has only been able to provide police with sketchy details of the youths but they spoke with Liverpool accents . |
| 18 | Initially , Chilton has only been able to persuade the makers to turn out spools of line with a 70lb breaking strain , strong enough to tow a boat . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 20 | Until now , doctors have only been able to CONFIRM the disease after death . |
| 21 | Many of the new innovations have only been possible because of the company 's commitment to total quality management ( TQM ) . |
| 22 | But the Americans have only been able to perform this leadership role because other people are paying , without demanding control of the operation . |
| 23 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 24 | The growth of imports has been over 11 per cent p.a. whereas export growth has only been 7.7 per cent p.a. , and if one considers exports and imports of goods other than oil products then the figures are 13 per cent p.a. import growth and 9 per cent p.a. export growth . |
| 25 | Hitherto , the central bank had only been able to advise the Treasury on interest rate policy , whereas under the new legislation the bank would be free to set the discount rate itself . |
| 26 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 27 | This dastardly Dizzy adventure has only been available on compilation … until now ! |
| 28 | The McofS has only been involved with two developments so far ( The Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and the Leisure Centre in Dundee — currently being built ) . |
| 29 | Julie had only been able to tell him that it was urgent . |