Example sentences of "[verb] only [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 2 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 6 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 7 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 8 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 9 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 14 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 15 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 16 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 17 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 18 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 19 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 20 | To protect privacy , phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office . |
| 21 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 22 | Although partial 16S sequences ( the first 700 bases ) are known for incompatibility bacteria from several insect species , nearly complete sequences have only been published for incompatibility bacteria of the mosquito Culex pipiens and wasps of the genus Nasonia . |
| 23 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 24 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 25 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 27 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |