Example sentences of "it only [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 7 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 8 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 9 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 10 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 11 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 12 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 13 | Then , it only commanded a small proportion of the UK biscuit market . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 17 | No one is absolutely certain of the reasons for the collapse , yet it only needed a sudden fear that share prices would drop to produce panic . |
| 18 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 19 | It only raises a further set of questions . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It only needs a voyeuristic archbishop and an alien disguised as Elvis Presley to provide the material for an entire Sunday Sport . |