Example sentences of "it [verb] only one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs only one breakdown to stop the whole process , and if the operators are not careful whole pages can ‘ disappear ’ inside the computer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Forget the doubters : British Coal knows that it has only one way to go , and that is forward . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has only one aim and that is to please for a fee . ’ |
| 7 | Unlike other brands , it contains only one type of non-irritant sunscreen . |
| 8 | They chose to work on diamond because it contains only one species of atom , and because highly perfect crystals were easily available . |
| 9 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 10 | It takes only one missile to get through , and lives may be lost , not to mention the ship . |
| 11 | It takes only one leak to sink a ship , one gate to let in a Trojan horse . |
| 12 | It began only one month after Beida 's ninetieth anniversary with the ‘ murder ’ of a postgraduate student , Chai Qing Feng , at a nearby snackbar . |
| 13 | Suppose a botanist working on the taxonomy of the ( hypothetical ) Peruvian bladder-grass family ( Vesicaliaceae ) discovered that it contained only one genus , Vesicalia , and that the genus had but one species , V. peruviensis . |
| 14 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 15 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 16 | It could oversee the substantial new academic development but it could not determine the shape of the sector of higher education it performed only one part in developing . |
| 17 | It had only one professor . |
| 18 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 19 | It had only one room , and one window , which was heavily barred , like a prison cell . |
| 20 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 21 | The Times wrote of the farce , ‘ It yields only one performance of any bite . |
| 22 | It supports only one user at a time . |
| 23 | Indeed , in London the Alliance made large gains in Tower Hamlets , but in neighbouring Islington it held only one seat in a council it had previously controlled . |