Example sentences of "only be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 2 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 3 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 4 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 5 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 6 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 7 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 8 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 9 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 15 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 16 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | CAROLINE PARNELL looks at the Langbaurgh campaign Into battle again in constituency of contrasts Candidates from the three main political parties only are fighting for the marginal Langbaurgh seat and all three stood just five months ago . |