Example sentences of "it only [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it really is n't eas it really is n't difficult to keep up to date er once you 've got the background because although income tax does change it only changes annually , it may well change more frequently changes annually . |
| 2 | Candida can convert to the hyphal form in infected areas of the skin or vagina , but it only does so partially — most of the Candida is still in the typical yeast form . |
| 3 | In fact , in winds of Force 3 to 5 it only does about half the work in getting your weight over the back foot , the rest is up to you . |
| 4 | fix your diary , a lot of you were n't here last week , oh by the way P C is er coming along with a film , it broke down the other week , you all enjoyed the talk so I do hope you come along to see the film , it only takes about twenty minutes and it 's on er security , you know , it 's for your own benefit |
| 5 | Cos it only takes about six week dun n it ? |
| 6 | What I do is I just get a bus at Hertford and walk to Hertford and normally it does n't take long it only takes about ten minutes |
| 7 | She felt the beat of his heart against her breast but it only came halfway to comforting her . |
| 8 | Just think of how many people will walk past and subconsciously absorb your band 's name on a sticker which is on a high street lamp post , even if it only stays there for a couple of days . |
| 9 | It only happens usually once |
| 10 | And you 'll see er for this er little section of recording the channel opens very infrequently , in fact it only opens once , to a level of three picoamps . |
| 11 | A council liason committee was set up when closure was first mooted … but it only met once … and some members are angry they had no warning of today 's announcement |
| 12 | But it only goes so far . |
| 13 | It only reached there by Chief Superintendent knew what he was bloody talking about . |
| 14 | The point about measurement is that it only occurs spasmodically . |
| 15 | If that sounds a touch mysterious itself , it only sounds so . |
| 16 | Even in the boom phase of the economic cycle , it only averaged below two million for just two years , before resuming its ascent . |
| 17 | Japan has experienced enormous growth of its overseas lending activities since 1980 , when it only had about 5% of the world lending market . |
| 18 | It only differs significantly when the change in energy , ( E1-E0 ) , is very small too . |
| 19 | It only works well , of course , if there are sufficient numbers of the genuinely distasteful individuals around to keep the predators well trained . |
| 20 | It only remained then , in this tight little half-hour programme , for David Attenborough to bring us up to date on the mountain gorillas of Rwanda — they are mainly alive and moderately well but not thanks to poachers — and for Mr Soper to have a fleeting swipe at the conservation intentions of the government , and it was all over . |
| 21 | However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation . |
| 22 | We saw common guillemot , Brünnich 's guillemot , razorbill , black guillemot and puffin : it only needed little auk to complete all the auks on the European list ! |
| 23 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 24 | Yeah , of course it would , well it only sat there anyway again in n it ? |
| 25 | I told her she could have my one cos it only had that much ink in it . |
| 26 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 27 | But , if I ever have it done again I 'm going to buy those brass things , and , it only costs about five pounds more . |
| 28 | a really beautiful room , but it only holds about forty , fifty people , what she 's gon na do is push the weddings , but she 's gon na , and say look , you can use this place |
| 29 | The other tree in the garden is the golden-leaved Gleditsia triacanthos " Sunburst " , which is very popular for small gardens as it only reaches about 16-20ft ( 4.8-6.1m ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew that there was always the danger that I could lose my sight , but I really thought it only happened later in life , ’ says Philippa . |