Example sentences of "would only [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere deep in Robbie 's rapidly fading consciousness a little warning voice admonished her not to let this happen , that it would only lead to heartache . |
| 2 | There was one hope which Rosen kept to himself and which would only come to light when Kennedy responded . |
| 3 | A Hungarian , Ms Erszebet Varga , who returned from Timisoara on Monday , told Hungarian television that on Sunday pregnant women taking part in the demonstration approached the bayonet wielding soldiers and , pointing to their swollen bellies , demanded that the unborn children be killed immediately as they would only starve to death when they were born . |
| 4 | It is suspected that such a high figure would only apply to non-specialist journals such as Nature and Science , which rapidly report results at the forefront of science , and that the rejected papers were later accepted by specialist journals publishing less urgent research . |
| 5 | It is suspected that such a high figure would only apply to non-specialist journals such as Nature and Science , which rapidly report results at the forefront of science , and that the rejected papers were later accepted by specialist journals publishing less urgent research . |