Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] 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 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 4 | He relapsed into a coma again , returning to consciousness only once to speak his wife 's name ; and on 4 January 1965 , he died . |
| 5 | Note that it is confined to males only , but includes retired people as well as those economically active ( relevant to the composition of the electorate as a whole ) . |
| 6 | He 'd have applied to RADA only he could n't remember what you called it . |
| 7 | The bland slopes bordering and beyond the river , innocuous when seen from the train , abound in hidden secrets that yield to discovery only after a search for them . |
| 8 | Her men seemed to have their feet on solid ground , but in truth they drifted like the kites , tethered to reality only by the memory of her . |
| 9 | In this context I continue to be uneasy about the role of the Voluntary Sector Environmental Forum whose terms of reference are clearly relevant to Wales but whose work is largely related to England only . |
| 10 | As in previous exhibitions , artists like Alcide Le Beau , Segonzac and Luc Albert Moreau , whose paintings were related to Cubism only in a most general way , were invited to show , and the title may have been chosen partly to allow for this . |
| 11 | And God 's blessings came to Ruth only as she was willing to get out and do something . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it so chanced it was covered deep , and came to light only when I was here to see . |
| 14 | He suggested that Labour governments came to power only when there had been a radical change in the climate of opinion . |
| 15 | In order to combat this , her parents were instructed to ignore any ‘ naughty ’ behaviour and speak to Suzy only when she was eating properly . |
| 16 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 17 | This seemed to Preston only a degree or so less deplorable than a tube system inhabited by ghouls . |
| 18 | The collapse of communism had led to the arrest of several RAF members in mid-1990 [ see p. 38476 ] , and the RAF hard core was thought to number only 20-30 people . |
| 19 | He was against tobacco , and against dancing , and against cinemas , and against going to church only once on Sundays . |
| 20 | The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her . |
| 21 | ‘ They tell me you only get that very strong black espresso coffee — not even cappuccino — and the cups are only half full , ’ Mervyn persisted , so that Ianthe had to protest that she was n't going to Rome only to eat and drink . |
| 22 | At the time of going to press only some companies had increased their prices . |
| 23 | At the time of going to press only some companies had increased their prices . |
| 24 | In many ways the service to and from Aberystwyth is a good one and trains now leave for Shrewsbury and Birmingham at 07.00 , 08.45 , 11.00 , 13.10 , 15.21 , 17.25 and 19.22 , and for passengers going to London only one change is needed . |
| 25 | They will resort to secession only when national oppression and national friction make joint life absolutely intolerable . |
| 26 | Meetings open to members only — SAE to : |
| 27 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 28 | It can almost be considered a law of human nature that punishment leads to self-control only when the child is on the side of the person punishing . |
| 29 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 30 | Sumo will be sold to VARs only . |