Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 used only natural materials : wood and stone and glass . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When a minimum wage was introduced in the United States , it caused only large increases in black unemployment . |
| 6 | Although the 1935 general election confirmed its position as the only main challenger for the left-wing vote , in that election it secured only 154 MPs — less than a quarter of the total membership of the Commons . |
| 7 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 8 | ‘ It happened only two minutes from home , ’ he recalls . |
| 9 | The last one — it happened only last year — was particularly nasty . |
| 10 | It opened only last year , so is still gleamingly new . |
| 11 | It opened only this month , and already it 's noted for its cuisine and cellar . ’ |
| 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 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 14 | At its foundation it employed only eight officials ; and this number did not increase much for the next half-century . |
| 15 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 16 | It contained only two songs : ‘ Soiled ’ , a frothy , winsome pop thing , and ‘ Soup ’ , a luscious paean to Judy Garland that was supremely infectious , full of wry wit ( ‘ You 're much thinner when you 're ill ’ ) and packed with aural surprises . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To Manville it meant only one thing . |
| 19 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 20 | It took only eight minutes for Portadown to take the lead . |
| 21 | It took only two minutes of lying stretched and rigid on his bed for Alex Mair to realize that sleep was unlikely to come . |
| 22 | It took only two years of renewed civilian government to see this death toll increase by 50 per cent . |
| 23 | It took only fifteen minutes before she was removing her bulbous black space helmet outside the house on avenue Foch . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 26 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 27 | It took only ten minutes of private weeping , however , to clear her head . |
| 28 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 29 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 30 | ‘ It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |