Example sentences of "it only [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it only courses one year 's duration maximum one year . |
| 2 | Because of the short life of the sealed unit built into each ball , it only lasted six months . |
| 3 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 4 | The trouble is it only does ten miles to the gallon . ’ |
| 5 | Well yes , but it only represents two percent of G D P in this country it 's , it 's insignificant . |
| 6 | The main thing to realise with trailer driving is that it only takes one mistake to wreck the trailer and a nice glider , as well as possibly writing off a new car . |
| 7 | Cable should n't be run under a carpet unless it 's suitably protected — it only takes one stiletto heel to bring your network down ! |
| 8 | Above The vulnerable beauty of Killary harbour : ‘ It only takes one fool to drop a barrel of chemicals , ’ Peter Mantle says , ‘ and we 're all wiped out . ’ |
| 9 | It only takes one lapse and a match can undergo a total transformation — there must be no slip-ups , ’ adds McGrath . |
| 10 | But , it only takes one car ! |
| 11 | ‘ It only takes one fanatic , ’ Harriet Shakespeare said heavily . |
| 12 | There 's an old saying : ‘ It only takes one spark to start a fire . ’ |
| 13 | On the evidence of its showing , SAS/EIS is certainly the kind of tool that will empower decision makers with the ability to study their companies and markets in new ways , with only minimum recall to the services of in-house software engineers — ‘ even a CEO can use this because it only takes one finger , ’ claims Jim Goodnight , SAS chief executive officer . |
| 14 | It only takes one media scare story ( Pill Deaths Quadruple ! ) or one neighbour being suddenly rushed to hospital , to make thousands of women think twice about using a particular form of contraception . |
| 15 | Simply peg out the design , wind on the warp thread and get weaving — it only takes five minutes . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind that it only takes 20 milligrams of this poi-son to kill a dog , and that a cat is equally susceptible , it is clear that here we have a serious threat to an incautious feline . |
| 17 | This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies . |
| 18 | He pushed aside the civilian Junta using it only to give decent sanction to new promotions . |
| 19 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 20 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 21 | She goes , it only drinks orange squash . |
| 22 | It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while . |
| 23 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 24 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 25 | It only had one wing . |
| 26 | The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure , but could not conceal that it only had one arm . |
| 27 | When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 29 | Barnard Castle chief inspector Malcolm Fordy said while the percentage rise was ‘ massive ’ it only represented 300 crimes more . |
| 30 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |