Example sentences of "would only [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 2 | But John Wainfleet would only confess to taking Sean 's knife and putting it in the pond as a joke . |
| 3 | If they would only return to playing with their undoubted flair and to enjoying the game as they once did . |
| 4 | I own it , I paid for it , but it would only go to someone that was old enough , mature enough . |
| 5 | The money would only go to you , Monks , as the older son , if the younger turned out to be as evil as you . ’ |
| 6 | However , compensation would only go to " those who suffered unusually under Nazi terror , for example , those who were used for medical experiments " . |
| 7 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 8 | He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger . |
| 9 | Major , addressing the Welsh Conservative Party conference on June 14 , dismissed those " sulking on the fringe of talks about the destiny of Europe " and declared that " the British government and the British parliament would only move to a single currency if they took a further , separate and explicit decision to do so , not just when to do so but whether to do so at all " . |
| 10 | It will be difficult at first but going on would only lead to more sorrow . |
| 11 | As the Community moves to complete the internal market , it will be necessary to ensure that anti-competitive practices do not engender new forms of local protectionism which would only lead to repartitioning the market . |
| 12 | It went on to warn against any general attack on fiscal incentives ( or , as ICAS says the report negatively and unhelpfully refers to them , ‘ fiscal degradation ’ ) : there is no level playing field in the EC and so less successful economies have to offer incentives to compete , ICAS said , and any attempt to eliminate them would only lead to governments using non-tax ones which will be harder for others to identify . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , we feel that such measures as those being mooted would only lead to further problems . |
| 17 | Speaking after a visit to Orkney this week , Harry Garland , BASW Scottish convener , said it ‘ would only lead to further distress for all concerned , and is not likely to lead to any clarification of the issues ’ . |
| 18 | There was one hope which Rosen kept to himself and which would only come to light when Kennedy responded . |
| 19 | If the case had been one of estoppel , it might be said that in any event the estoppel would cease when the conditions to which the representation applied came to an end , or it also might be said that it would only come to an end on notice . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Despite the disadvantages of uncertainty , you might be willing to leave the question of notice rights unresolved if you have strong grounds for suspecting that your employer would only agree to statutory minimum notice because that it is company policy . |
| 22 | Despite the disadvantages of uncertainty , you might be willing to leave the question of notice rights unresolved if you have strong grounds for suspecting that your employer would only agree to statutory minimum notice because that is company policy . |
| 23 | At the time of the Korean War in 1950 he feared a Soviet invasion and he believed that the USSR would only agree to German reunification on its own terms , which could well result in Communist rule . |
| 24 | Why should the fact that D was engaged on causing damage to property at the time ( even damage to D's own property ) make his conduct into an offence punishable with life imprisonment when , if D were engaged on some other activity , it would not be punishable as such and would only amount to manslaughter if a death happened to be caused ? |
| 25 | They note that for a deviation Δ of 10 -11 the accumulated effect over a year would only amount to a relative velocity of 1 µm s -1 towards the Sun ! |
| 26 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 27 | This compared with predictions by the International Energy Agency that the world market would only amount to 22,700,000 bpd in the year starting March 1992 . |
| 28 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 29 | Even if it were to acquire Palatine , its North Western tied house stock would only increase to some 330 . |
| 30 | It would only respond to matters referred to it . |