Example sentences of "only [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 2 | Researcher : Well , you have only referred to one teacher . |
| 3 | At the same time , influential psychodynamic doctrine held that children can only relate to one set of parent figures and that psychological ties are more important than biological ones . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The effects of Scottish resistance were not , however , only confined to literary creation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But such innovations were only applied to certain traffic flows , and the old order of vacuum-braked or unfitted wagons , sprawling marshalling yards and generally lavish siding provision was allowed to linger on . |
| 10 | In S/Z Barthes is not suggesting that literary texts implicitly refer to some transcendent model : literary texts can only cross-refer to each other . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the North Western Health Board said the warning only related to Russian vodka brands bought outside the normal distribution channels . |
| 12 | Vietnam and the UK had signed an agreement in principle on forced repatriation on Oct. 29 , 1991 [ see p. 38531 ] , but Vietnam had at that time only agreed to immediate repatriation of new arrivals and so-called " double-backers " — people who had fled to the colony a second time . |
| 13 | this silent business or silent treatment er it only leads to worse trouble . |
| 14 | A relative concept highlights not only costs to physical health . |
| 15 | You ca n't link a whole range to a whole range , you can only have to one cell . |
| 16 | Note that this only applies to ordinary armour and not to magic armour which saves normally . |
| 17 | This view is supported by a passage from the first volume of Capital , in which Marx answers the objection that his theory only applies to capitalist society . |
| 18 | Of course , this test only applies to non-literal copying and the actual code remains fully protected against direct ( literal ) copying . |
| 19 | Interest payments on the first £30,000 of a mortgage paid on your own home ( the relief only applies to basic rate tax — see note below ) . |
| 20 | Moreover the Housing Act 1988 only applies to residential occupation and has no effect upon lease — licence cases with respect to business or office premises . |
| 21 | Because , by obvious reasons that can only happen to one person . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 23 | When entering Germany you are supposed to pay a toll which is only charged to non-German coach operators . |
| 24 | And it 's more likely that the cloudier west coast will only struggle to ten celcius , that 's fifty farenheit . |
| 25 | Khin Nyunt , first secretary of the SLORC and head of the powerful Directorate of Defence Services Intelligence , stated that a swift transfer of power would only lead to weak government . |
| 26 | His hands tightened when she tried to step back , and Claudia , refusing a struggle that could only lead to one thing , stood very still . |
| 27 | Compassion could only lead to increased confusion , for it would be wasted on her . |
| 28 | Baker was told that human rights were an internal matter ; Yang Shangkun , warning that pressure on this issue would only lead to increased tension , suggested " seeking common ground while reserving differences " to improve relations . |
| 29 | Taking various client groups into the bureaucracy is in itself no real way forward because in that context it can only lead to professional defensiveness of the worst kind . |
| 30 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |