Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [vb infin] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May , 1992 , the regional health authority informed Riverside Health Authority ( the district health authority ) that the unit 's transfer was being reconsidered and it could only commit capital to the unit if the case load was increased and if the unit could withstand a reduction of charitable funding . |
| 2 | They could only speak Greek to the Romans , and it was for the Romans to decide whether they wanted an interpreter . |
| 3 | Therefore , a driver need only accord precedence to pedestrians on the crossing on his side of the road . |
| 4 | Here purists were deliberately challenging official arguments which opposed fresh legislation or greater public discussion on the grounds that this would only draw attention to sex and incite immorality . |
| 5 | She might get over this present illness but would only fall victim to the first virus that came along . |
| 6 | But the divine message will only bring gloom to the Greens . |
| 7 | Others certainly did : Metternich remarked , ‘ in the great Confederation , there is arising a smaller union , a status in statu in the full sense of the term , which will only too soon accustom itself to achieve its own ends by its own machinery … and will only pay attention to the objects and machinery of the Confederation insofar as they are compatible with the former ’ . |
| 8 | MIPS ' poor first quarter figures — see page three — will only add fuel to these fires . |
| 9 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 10 | The income arising to the trust can only be taxed under Schedule D , Case IV or V. Payments from the trust can only give rise to a new source under Case V. Those Cases give the taxpayer the benefit of the remittance basis . |
| 11 | My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames . |
| 12 | Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read . |
| 13 | The contents of this chapter can not describe the tax position on each transfer ; they can only draw attention to the possible heads of charge and reliefs available in respect of each of them . |
| 14 | Who says you can only add water to Bisto granules ? |