Example sentences of "it [vb mod] only [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But i it 'll only be that picture . |
| 2 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 3 | With a nose like this it could only be one plane . |
| 4 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 5 | It could only be one thing , a Fax machine . |
| 6 | It could only be one source — only one source had his number here . |
| 7 | Du n no yeah but it do n't mean to say that there 's a lot come out , it could only be that lot , could n't it ? |
| 8 | It could only be some quality in the stillness of the air which made the voice carry so beautifully . |
| 9 | Knowing that it could only be bad news , Harry , who had been standing in the doorway , stepped forward and put his arm round Cora-Beth 's shoulders . |
| 10 | If forced down to form a layer near the Earth 's surface it would only be five millimetres thick . |
| 11 | and it would only be six months |
| 12 | Yeah it 's o it would only be short term would n't it ? |
| 13 | It would only be ten names maybe . |
| 14 | She anticipated that fir from being deluged with relatively less serious complaints , it would only be those women ‘ most traumatised by the experience ’ of rape who would report it . |
| 15 | And it will only be forty-eight hours before relief arrives . ’ |
| 16 | So it can only be human failure I E that she was driving and just sort of lost her concentration for a few seconds and that was fatal |