Example sentences of "only be [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The date of his release had only been announced by de Klerk at a news conference on Feb. 10 . |
| 2 | The European Communities ( EC ) suspended a trade and co-operation agreement which had only been initialled on June 8 , and withdrew an invitation to Romania to attend a meeting of the G-24 nations in Paris in July . |
| 3 | Socially , at this point the significance of design as such is more or less lost : significance can only been seen in terms of problems solved or products produced . |
| 4 | As yet involvement of radicals has only been observed in mouse models . |
| 5 | Shortly beforehand , Ben Ali had dismissed the secretary of state for national security , Mohamed Larbi Mahjoubi , who ( like Khelil ) had only been appointed in March 1990 . |
| 6 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 7 | Choir and instrumentalists are as responsive to Gardiner 's direction as we have come to expect of them but even so I am left with the feeling that the great sense of occasion generated by this music has only been realized in part . |
| 8 | As noted earlier , these theories have not only been applied to people but also to people 's creations , such as works of art and writings . |
| 9 | Until recently , the secluded Cockatoo Island in Western Australia had only been visited by iron ore miners and nineteenth-century pearl fishermen . |
| 10 | O. enopla enopla has so far only been recorded from SE. of Cape Cod at a depth of 1152 m . |
| 11 | In the North Atlantic it has only been recorded from south of Martha 's Vineyard in 2509 m . |
| 12 | In the North Atlantic this species has only been recorded from south of the Canaries at depths of 932–2330 m . |
| 13 | Tillett 's Tea Operatives had only been spurred into action by the activities of an outspoken gas stoker named Will Thorne who had succeeded in organizing the men at the great Beckton gasworks in East Ham into forming a Gas Workers ' Union in May 1889 . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 15 | They had not yet given their opinion to the present proposal — given outline permission by East Hampshire District council 's northern area planning sub-committee on March 24th — because the plans had at that stage only been submitted in outline . |
| 16 | Nature conservation has only been promoted by government in France since 1976 ; to date only 2 official Nature Reserves have been designated in the Auvergne . |
| 17 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 18 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 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 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 21 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 22 | Furthermore such systems have not yet been designed to flood such a warehouse at the speed with which the fire will develop vertically and so far have only been used in conjunction with a sprinkler system at ceiling level . |
| 23 | Until recently , the cancer drug paclitaxel , from Pacific yew trees ( faxus brevifolia ) , has only been used in patients whose cancers are well developed . |
| 24 | According to Xinhua Shultz quoted Chinese leaders as saying that missiles had only been sold to Saudi Arabia , despite reports of sales to Iran [ see pp. 35160 ; 35966 ; 36671 ] , Libya and Syria [ see p. 36180 ] . |
| 25 | These Permian and Triassic salts , well known in the Cheshire Basin and in the Irish Sea Basin ( Colter and Barr 1975 ) , have so far only been identified in Ireland in and around the Larne Basin , though it would be surprising if that was the limit of their former extent . |
| 26 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 27 | So far , this has only been attempted in animals , using the technique of mucosal scraping . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Olaf 's major followers had seemingly not only been seduced by Cnut 's cash , but also angered , according to Adam of Bremen , by the king 's tendency to apprehend their wives for sorcery . |
| 30 | Alternatively he may consider that the transaction has only been agreed in outline and requires the lawyer to negotiate the details . |