Example sentences of "only [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did , and explained why the Tory reforms attended to patient and parent whereas the Labour ones only pandered to the producer . |
| 2 | He said little more , only asked to be kept informed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 6 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 7 | ( 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 ) . |
| 8 | The value of contracts in 1986/87 only amounted to £120 million ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 186 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , new investment only amounted to £91m . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Our last record only got to 78 in the charts ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He only got to sergeant-major . ’ |
| 19 | Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . |
| 20 | ( Well , I only got to page 8 … ) . |
| 21 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 22 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 23 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 24 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 25 | " She only agreed to it because I used to know him at school . " |
| 26 | Mr and Mrs Maughan — who only moved to the house in King 's Heath , Birmingham , a month ago — were being comforted by relatives . |
| 27 | A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here . |
| 28 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 29 | But he only promised to ‘ do justice ’ regarding the forests created by Henry II and Richard I. An inquiry was to be made in every county by an elected jury of twelve knights into ‘ evil customs ’ of forests , warrens and rivers , and these customs were to be abolished within forty days , provided that the king , or , in his absence , the Justiciar , were first informed . |
| 30 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |