Example sentences of "it only [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the ongoing maintenance requirements which will be most scrutinised by the environmental health officer , and in many cases , it only takes a dirty grease filter system dripping onto the food cooking surfaces to alert the authorities . |
| 2 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 3 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 4 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 5 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 6 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 7 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 8 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 9 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 10 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 11 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 12 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 13 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 14 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 15 | Still , it only takes a few bars of Kondrashin ( the work 's first interpreter ) to feel what the music is really driving at — this is part of a two-disc set with the first three symphonies on Le Chant du Monde . |
| 16 | Where the promise is the ‘ best evidence ’ it only expresses an implied promise ( implied in the request ) . |
| 17 | A normal two page A4 fax can demand up to 200k and it only requires a moderate amount of activity before faxes are stretching the memory requirements of any system to the limits . |
| 18 | As the moisture content of the wood in an unheated structure may be around 15 per cent , it only requires a small amount of damp in an unventilated corner to get the rot going . |
| 19 | The benefit of the system is it only requires the deaf person to have the special electronics and screen . |
| 20 | It only works the other way round . |
| 21 | These are the grounds for our repeated assertions that the designer of the unit must ensure that it only demands an achievable extension of the repertoire of transactions of the teachers for whom it is intended . |
| 22 | It only raises a further set of questions . |
| 23 | Although it only contains a small number of members , we have here a distinct and interesting adjective type , which among other things strikingly illustrates the unconscious linguistic skill of ordinary speakers ( see also Appendix B Section 5 ) . |
| 24 | This is a this is a question we very often get asked , why do they sell a thirteen amp fuse with a thirteen amp plug if it only wants a five amp in ? |
| 25 | Because it , it , it only covers the bloody van ! |
| 26 | It only leaves the burning question — what time today will Turnip resign . |
| 27 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |
| 28 | It only costs a thousand pounds to get me |
| 29 | It only needs a voyeuristic archbishop and an alien disguised as Elvis Presley to provide the material for an entire Sunday Sport . |