Example sentences of "[pron] only [vb -s] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 2 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 3 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 4 | For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten . |
| 5 | It 's not cos she only gets a little bit . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 7 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 8 | Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability . |
| 9 | These new works are without exception undistinguished — neither major nor , in most cases , characteristic — and one only wishes the present Court was more robustly advised in such matters . |
| 10 | Looking at the graceful lofty sweep of the stone finger now it only takes a slight imaginative leap to picture the majestic beauty of the abbey in its former entirety . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 13 | It only takes a small criminal minority to cause these problems and the message must be that the residents of this estate will pull together to stop it happening again . |
| 14 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 15 | ‘ It only takes a little thing like that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 18 | It only takes a few moments to apply for Accident Cashguard 's important cover . |
| 19 | ‘ It only takes a few minutes , ’ said one . |
| 20 | It only takes a few minutes to write yet receiving a letter out of the blue can mean such a lot to somebody . |
| 21 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But although it only takes a few minutes , life without thick glasses has a cost . |
| 25 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 26 | It only takes a few minutes . |
| 27 | Where the promise is the ‘ best evidence ’ it only expresses an implied promise ( implied in the request ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The benefit of the system is it only requires the deaf person to have the special electronics and screen . |