Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 2 | It prefers lime-rich ground and has been recorded on only 20 occasions in Britain . |
| 3 | An improvement in survival with combinations of 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin , however , has been observed in only two of seven randomised studies , and the improvement was only moderate . |
| 4 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 5 | Bruce and Pat Cottrill , of Colwyn Bay , are furious that killer Frederic Blancke has been jailed for only 15 years , which means he could be free before the end of the century . |
| 6 | So far uranium dust has been detected in only one machine — the Oxford unit at Churchill Hospital . |
| 7 | However , he omitted to mention that the agreement ( drawn up in secret in 1990 ) has been ratified by only three of the 12 EC countries and is therefore not in force . |
| 8 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 9 | It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination . |
| 10 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 11 | So far the type of situation in which salt fingers occur has been specified in only rather general terms . |
| 12 | The fen violet has been found at only two sites , and the New Forest cicada and the water beetle at only one each . |
| 13 | Another interesting fact shown in the DVR accounts is that the average weekly number of employees has been reduced by only five even though the DVR now operates one railway . |
| 14 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 15 | Recent research suggests that the radiation effects induced in these Japanese people may have been caused by only half as much radiation as has hitherto been believed ( Hawkes et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Had it been accepted , the District would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 17 | But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days . |
| 18 | Squatting in the soil , knees bent double either side of her head , intent on her hands working between her legs , Carolyn could have been taken for only half her age . |
| 19 | But alas , most seemed to have been born with only one or just mislaid the other on the way . |
| 20 | Rigorous steps to avoid selection biases seem to have been taken in only two of the four studies of immature babies — namely , those of Hofmeyr et al . |
| 21 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 22 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 23 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 24 | The statement follows in the wake of a study by the Australian based Rainforest information Centre ( RIC ) revealing that submissions had been received from only 22 of the 316 logging operations underway in the country . |
| 25 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 26 | He had been employed for only three weeks . |
| 27 | Such factual situations had not been considered by Lord Templeman who had been dealing with only one occupant . |
| 28 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 29 | On Nov. 20 , Ghana Broadcasting Corporation reported that the parliamentary elections had been postponed until Dec. 22 ; the report quoted Mr Justice Ofori-Boateng as saying that as a result of the withdrawal of the four parties , 38 constituencies had been left with only one candidate each . |
| 30 | Water levels in the drains had been reduced to only about one foot and , in view of the conditions , it was surprising that anything at all was caught . |