Example sentences of "only [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 2 | This ensured that our customers not only complied with , but had taken positive preventative action to implement procedures and controls in advance of these new regulations , saving them both time and money today . |
| 3 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 4 | But he did , and explained why the Tory reforms attended to patient and parent whereas the Labour ones only pandered to the producer . |
| 5 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 6 | The Emperor , popularly supposed to be immortal , only endured by virtue of adamantine , anguished courage and will power . |
| 7 | Do n't blame me if you only read about Drayton and Taverham classes . |
| 8 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 9 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 10 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 11 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 12 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 13 | ‘ Because the signal he sent spoke of alleged complicity in murder and rape , and only asked for his whereabouts . |
| 14 | He said little more , only asked to be kept informed . |
| 15 | I 've heard in fac er in my factory , I 've heard it in other places , right , when a temporary l temporary or casual worker goes down the road , or a part-timer work 's cut short , ah it 's only a casual and he only expected to be here for a few weeks . |
| 16 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 17 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 18 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 19 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 20 | They only fought in order to protect somebody else ( ‘ like one of the younger kids who 's getting smashed up ’ ) but were clearly very capable of making a good job of it . |
| 21 | The value of contracts in 1986/87 only amounted to £120 million ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 186 ) . |
| 22 | That means 13 million cars , more than half the total in Britain , could easily be running on unleaded fuel now , yet sales of unleaded six months after the budget still only amounted to 20 per cent of total fuel revenue . |
| 23 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 24 | This weapon was not as significant as it seemed : a two-thirds majority was needed for the vote to succeed ; the EC budget , despite the costs of the CAP , only amounted to one per cent of the Community 's GDP ; and , if the budget was rejected , the Commission would still have the right to spend money on a month-by-month basis . |
| 25 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 26 | Although his yearly stipend only amounted to £6.00 or so in today 's values , he was soon witnessed to be spending the equivalent of thousands of pounds on various good works for his village . |
| 27 | However , new investment only amounted to £91m . |
| 28 | According to Eugen Dijmarescu , Minister of State for Economic Orientation , the state was paying out some 30,000 million lei per month in subsidies , while the population 's total monthly income only amounted to 26,000 million lei . |
| 29 | Our last record only got to 78 in the charts ! |
| 30 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |