Example sentences of "[vb pp] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DUC , with some ten members , was not initially anti-mining and was formed only to investigate the implications of the prospecting and then to report back and decide in consultation with the community what action should be taken . |
| 2 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 3 | The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage . |
| 4 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 5 | The new centre , which was to cost some 60,000,000 European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.09565 or pounds 0.67654 as at July 5 , 1989 ) was to be run by Eurocontrol , the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation ; it was intended only to co-ordinate , and not to replace , the separate national systems , however . |
| 6 | Its newly established corporate sales force is intended only to drum up demand among the Fortune 1000 . |
| 7 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 8 | Their use of subterfuge can be justified only to obtain material which ought to be published in the public interest and could not be obtained by other means . |
| 9 | Their use ( down to say , D ) is recommended only to complete the contour of a phrase which would otherwise lose its shape . |
| 10 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 11 | The commander explained to the Dictator that the ship had come only to ensure the safety of British subjects and not to interfere in the situation in Madeira . |
| 12 | Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work . |
| 13 | Additionally the workload in any patient area is distributed unevenly throughout the day and in any case the patient 's day should not be designed only to suit the availability of the staff . |
| 14 | Now there are 15 resource centres funded by the federal government , but these are designed only to fight appeals . |
| 15 | Although originally based on the Greek ideal of Philosopher Kings , the mixture of academics , priests and the military actually led to decision making designed only to protect sectional interests . |
| 16 | A spokesman for the company management said later : ‘ Management at the Timex plant in Dundee deplores the activities of protesters outside its plant , tactics which are designed only to intimidate the workers who are coming into the plant . ’ |
| 17 | An early contestant for the role of heir apparent , Aleke Banda , a minister in the 1960s , was restricted to his village for several years before being partially rehabilitated only to fall in disgrace again in the mid 1980s . |
| 18 | ‘ Because it is permitted only to charge a profit of sixty pfennigs if soda is served with whisky . ’ |
| 19 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 20 | The only way in now was through the computer palm-recognition slab , and that was programmed only to reverse the lock-down upon the authority of executive-level Holderness-Manolo personnel . |
| 21 | In addition it was decided only to examine information that is external to the company and available from formal sources even though it is well known ( and was confirmed in discussions with the companies themselves ) that a considerable use is made of internal and informal information . |
| 22 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 23 | Without this , Oakeshott 's views might be felt only to betray ‘ a tone of sentimental nostalgia for the pre-industrial age in which the ideals of societas were understood to have had social and political correlatives in some objective form of social life ’ . |
| 24 | Loans were felt only to provide a short-term solution while grants were inadequate or not available to those in need . |
| 25 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 26 | This was made explicit in his letter through a particularly unpleasant charge , that a top appointment at Stewart 's Melville was made only to protect the school from the impending action by himself . |
| 27 | It is said only to underline the specific nature of the German revolution . |
| 28 | Ministers have warning of questions and need disclose no more information than they think fit and are obliged only to answer those matters which fall within their particular areas of responsibility . |
| 29 | She was obliged only to pay court costs of £400 . |
| 30 | The current practices , both those of manual and CAD drafting , are seen only to record the geometric entities and not their function . |