Example sentences of "only [verb] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many of these benefits are ‘ means-tested ’ , in other words are only given to people whose income is below a certain level , some , such as disability living allowance , are not dependent on how poor or how wealthy you are . |
| 2 | The full amount is only given to people whose income does not exceed £14,200 . |
| 3 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 4 | The value of contracts in 1986/87 only amounted to £120 million ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 186 ) . |
| 5 | However , new investment only amounted to £91m . |
| 6 | Although his yearly stipend only amounted to £6.00 or so in today 's values , he was soon witnessed to be spending the equivalent of thousands of pounds on various good works for his village . |
| 7 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 8 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 9 | That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund . |
| 10 | Bastard about Man U tix only going to people who went to Sunderland away . |
| 11 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 12 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 13 | It would take a lot of variation to show serious differences in performance , in fact one could ‘ round down ’ the basic diameter to one metre ( 39in ) and , with a given 230g or 8oz load , the loading will only vary to 294g/sq m or 0.95oz/sq ft which in any circumstances is very light loading indeed . |
| 14 | We can only write to people we know it might well be twenty out of thirty houses wanted |
| 15 | At present , the allowance is only paid to people under the age of 80 . |