Example sentences of "it [verb] only [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 2 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 3 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 4 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 5 | It is true that it has only been considered in the context of people of opposite sex ; but that may be primarily because its materialist aspect was developed to regulate the consequences of such unions . |
| 6 | Though it is part of national transport policy to promote the safe use of cycles on existing cycle tracks and roads , it has only been since the Tilburg and Hague results that the possible advantages of promoting route networks have been appreciated . |
| 7 | It has only been there ( altered from a house ) since 1980 because Sir James Reckitt ( of Reckitt and Colman fame ) who bought Swanland manor in 1884 , was a devout Quaker and would not allow a pub in the village . |
| 8 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 9 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 10 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 11 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years ! |
| 13 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 14 | In relaying decisions to the member governments , it has only been able to recommend . |
| 15 | Although Abba is not restricted to any one medium , covering magnetic tape , VHS cassettes , optical disks and streamers , up till now , it has only been used in IBM Corp MVS mainframe and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG BS2000 environments . |
| 16 | It still maintains with blithe equanimity its opinion that active smoking , let alone passive smoking , does not cause disease — it has only been shown to have a ‘ statistical association , ’ much in the same way that sexual intercourse might be denied to ‘ cause ’ pregnancy . |
| 17 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 18 | However , it has only been tested on one domain . |
| 19 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 20 | In the North Atlantic it has only been recorded from south of Martha 's Vineyard in 2509 m . |
| 21 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 22 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 23 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 24 | it has only been applied , however , on a very limited scale . |
| 25 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 26 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 27 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 28 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 29 | And it had only been the rear of the house that had been knocked down . |
| 30 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |