Example sentences of "it only [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it only five months ago we were all talking of promotion as a certainty ? |
| 2 | ‘ Bad for him to do it only one way , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Kasmin has opened in more spacious quarters at 74 Grand St and they are presenting in it only one painting but a big one by Peter Schuyff 6 to 31 October while Hirschl & Adler Modern have abandoned the rarefied reaches of upper Madison Ave . |
| 4 | On the one hand there are those who consider it only one step away from witchcraft , believing that the hypnotherapist is able to subjugate the will and dominate the mind of his unconscious victim . |
| 5 | Leaned , that aircraft will fly 116 miles on the same fuel which takes it only 100 miles in rich . |
| 6 | Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment . |
| 7 | Is it ONLY personal callers ? |
| 8 | This was Luke — and , if he had intended to break their date , it was highly unlikely that he would have sent her flowers to confirm it only that morning … |
| 9 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 10 | Move the leg forwards and back slightly , 20 times , moving it only 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 11 | The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand . |
| 12 | The day ended as it had begun with a win for Carl Fogarty , with Robert Dunlop getting his hat-trick , and Jim Moodie , making it only three winners for the seven races . |
| 13 | Hrun had stolen it only three days before from the impregnable palace of the Archmandrite of B ‘ Ituni , and he was already regretting it . |
| 14 | Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve-thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? |
| 15 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 16 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 17 | I had left it only twenty minutes earlier . |
| 18 | Under the previous legislation the Secretary of State had the discretion to turn down applications but exercised it only 519 times in the space of five years . |
| 19 | My idea — I admit that I came up with it only this morning — is that the entire transaction involving the definition of the terms of reference for the study for the consultants should then become public property and not an enclosed relationship with the promoters . |
| 20 | Was it only last night ? |
| 21 | Is it only senior management at planning meetings or is it everyone involved in achieving it ? |