Example sentences of "[conj] it only [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 2 | Yakovlev devotes loving attention to the single , insignificant sovkhoz ( state farm ) in the whole area , although it only employed eleven people . |
| 3 | Their verdict was that it only went to show . |
| 4 | AY has admitted negligence in relation to the stock over-statement , provided that WG can prove the fraud took place , but the firm is claiming that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar as its auditor , and not to Walker Greenbank , even though it audited the group accounts . |
| 5 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 6 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 7 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 8 | Indeed the Court of Appeal in Phekoo expressed the opinion that it only applied to rape but I hope that one might interpret that to mean ‘ rape-like offences ’ , that is all offences where the mistake in question relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea . |
| 9 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 10 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 11 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 12 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 13 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 14 | This was n't a major catastrophe , and it only took a minute to rectify , but it 's a clear case of poor quality control . |
| 15 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 16 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 17 | And it only managed to pay an interim dividend of 2.75p , compared to 5.5p last time . |
| 18 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 19 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 20 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 21 | But then , unaccountably , its initial popularity dropped off , and it only had eight further performances that year . |
| 22 | And it only had the one door . |
| 23 | and it only had one over all the speaker |
| 24 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 25 | I recently had an interesting encounter with the honeybee and it only served to point out that regardless of size the degree of intelligence is quite extraordinary . |
| 26 | And it only stopped once and that were at er unless it stopped to change engines somewhere , perhaps it would , but it stopped in Birmingham for twenty minutes and what a twenty minutes it were . |
| 27 | The problems of bulk transport had been solved before 1880 , with the coming of the steamship and the railway , and it only remained to spread and perfect them . |
| 28 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 29 | She sensed his suspicion , and it only highlighted what she 'd known . |
| 30 | And it only needed the habitually mournful expressions of one of the dogs to deepen a little and I was round there post haste . |