Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 3 | Magnitudes have been given to only one-tenth , because it is almost impossible for the naked-eye or binocular observer to distinguish differences of less than this ( though I agree that some people claim to be able to do so ; I certainly can not ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 7 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 8 | 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would have been confined to only three centres in Norfolk — Norwich , Great Yarmouth and King 's Lynn and would have withdrawn from at least ten other centres at which WEA branches had existed , some from the early twenties . |
| 9 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 10 | But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days . |
| 11 | Danielle has been writing for only 12 or so . |
| 12 | It , too , sounded good but eighteen months later had been applied to only four favoured countries — Mexico , Venezuela , Costa Rica and the Philippines . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 19 | The units had been used by only half the boards surveyed , area sessions had been attended by less than one-third . |
| 20 | The pay rise prohibition , however , had been approved by only six states by the end of 1791 . |
| 21 | So far uranium dust has been detected in only one machine — the Oxford unit at Churchill Hospital . |
| 22 | However , the situation is complicated by there being more than 200 CF mutations and many of them have been detected in only 1 patient . |
| 23 | He had been employed for only three weeks . |
| 24 | But alas , most seemed to have been born with only one or just mislaid the other on the way . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment . |
| 27 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 28 | The fen violet has been found at only two sites , and the New Forest cicada and the water beetle at only one each . |
| 29 | Had Hoving 's reign been marked by only these highlights , he would have richly earned his self-appointed title as the ‘ crusading force ’ in American museums in the twentieth century . |
| 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 . |