Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun sg] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case , however , moved to trial only after Mr Garcia himself proposed the use of military courts against guerrilla suspects , because of their alleged greater efficiency . |
| 2 | Though their long history from the early Cambrian to the present different groups of articulate brachiopods rose to prominence only to decline . |
| 3 | Organic superconductivity came to light only four years ago when a group led by Denis Jerome of the Universite Paris-Sud at Orsay and Klaus Bechgaard from the H.C . |
| 4 | But it so chanced it was covered deep , and came to light only when I was here to see . |
| 5 | He suggested that Labour governments came to power only when there had been a radical change in the climate of opinion . |
| 6 | Indeed British reservations began to surface only after the Soviet nuclear test in the late summer of 1949 ( this had occurred some years earlier than expected ) , and when the scale of the American build-up in Britain became apparent . |
| 7 | The accused 's conviction was quashed because the judge had not explained to the jury that the sale amounted to theft only if the victim had a " proprietary right or interest " in the video . |
| 8 | After 1496 Henry resorted to Parliament only once , in 1504 , when he was granted £30,000 as an aid for the knighting of his eldest son — by then dead — and the marriage of his elder daughter . |
| 9 | On the whole , the men of Fontanellato went to church only for feast days , funerals , christenings and weddings , or to ask some special favour of the Almighty . |
| 10 | Many of the new middle class girls ' schools sought to show that they took the problem of adolescent development seriously by appointing doctors to safeguard the welfare of their charges , and until well into the twentieth century pupils attending the Girls ' Public Day School Trust schools , the first of which opened in 1872 , went to school only in the mornings so that they should avoid strain and be allowed to be at home with their mothers in the afternoons . |