Example sentences of "[verb] only been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 2 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 3 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 4 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 5 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 6 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 7 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , you 've only been a frog for a while . |
| 9 | You 've only been a reader for 32 years . |
| 10 | He had only been a stop-gap , to fill in after Father Collins 's long , thirty-five-year ministry and the appointment of a permanent successor , if there were to be a successor . |
| 11 | as if all the work of the past four months had only been a dream , the cutting and the drilling , the painting , the moulding of the lead wire . |
| 12 | It had worked with Billy , truck driver and reluctant witness — but Billy had only been a rehearsal for this , the main event . |
| 13 | He told me later that he had only been a guard for fifteen months , also that the normal takings on this section of the line were approximately £10 , so he was only too pleased to work out a 26% discount for a group booking that realised BR £77.35 from our party . |
| 14 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 15 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 16 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 17 | He had only been a councillor for nine months but had been very diligent and effective . ’ |
| 18 | Because the memories plaguing her were sending her quietly crazy , and it had only been a week since she had been out of his company . |
| 19 | It had only been a glimpse , but it had been enough . |
| 20 | It had only been a shot in the dark ; playing a hunch really , but Johnny 's face reddened and he looked momentarily discomfited . |
| 21 | One of the boys said later there had only been a tin of cat food and a bus pass and an old purse with a pound and a key in it anyway , and that they would n't have had to hit her if she had n't clung so hard to her handbag . |
| 22 | In 1855 , when the first railway line was opened from Howrah , there had only been a collection of huts and sheds on the site . |
| 23 | By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . |
| 24 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 25 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's quick , Mrs Goodbody , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's only been a couple of days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's only been a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 28 | And in the same you know , I mean er two or three years so there 's not gon na be much , and it 's only been a couple that are gon na |
| 29 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 30 | It 's only been a week since I was here , and she was in perfectly good health then . ’ |