Example sentences of "it [verb] only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 2 | It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ . |
| 3 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 4 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
| 5 | It used only natural materials : wood and stone and glass . |
| 6 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 7 | Note the point that it covers only those parts which are readily visible and accessible . |
| 8 | This small branch — it has only 42 members — showed that something that is a little ‘ out of the ordinary ’ can prompt a very good public response to Wings Appeal . |
| 9 | It has only four combat aircraft — armed maritime reconnaissance aircraft — and no armed helicopters . |
| 10 | Today 's meeting of Gloucestershire Education Committee has questioned the future of Guiting Power school again because it has only 14 pupils , not the promised school roll of 19 . |
| 11 | Based in Bradford , it has only 100 members but claims to be linking up with branches throughout the country . |
| 12 | I have just bought a SWB Petrol III although it was made in 1977 I do n't think its had a very hard life , it has only 45,000 miles on the clock and going by its condition I think that 's about right . |
| 13 | But a corporation created by or in pursuance of an Act of Parliament is subject to the rule that it has only such powers as are expressly conferred , or are necessarily or reasonably incident to the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is established . |
| 14 | It has only two options for collecting repayments of loans worth up to £460 a year — an income tax surcharge , or increased national insurance contributions — unless it sets up an even more costly mechanism . |
| 15 | It has only two terminals which connect to ‘ 0V ’ and ‘ OUT ’ in Fig 4 . |
| 16 | It has only two EC competitors . |
| 17 | It has only two functions in life — to replicate undetected and to carry a payload , possibly destructive . |
| 18 | It has only two stars above the third magnitude , Beta or Diphda ( 2.0 ) and Alpha ( 2.5 ) ; next come Eta ( 3.4 ) and Gamma and Tau ( each 3.5 ) . |
| 19 | If the project is to be successful , it is vital that , as with the Swiss national bank , when the board of that monetary institution meets , it has only one consideration in mind — how to reconcile the requirements of price stability and liquidity in the Community as a whole . |
| 20 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 21 | Nice rich reds and browns in the colour , it has only one drawback in the shape of some sharp edges which may cut you or your fish . |
| 22 | There was another coalfield on the west coast the Cumberland coalfield — but this had only 16 mines and now it has only one mine but several opencast workings . |
| 23 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 24 | According to those calculations , Paribas should be trading at around Fr650 while it has only this week started to trade over Fr600 . |
| 25 | Unlike other brands , it contains only one type of non-irritant sunscreen . |
| 26 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
| 27 | To illustrate the construction of a price index , suppose that we have selected an appropriate basket of goods and that , for simplicity , it contains only three items : bread , milk and eggs . |
| 28 | Every man of us knows now how the reliquary was filched and borne away , it wants only this boy 's testimony to give the thief a face and a name . |
| 29 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 30 | Word is it took only three days to boot Unix on the prototype . |