Example sentences of "only [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jess could n't see except when the birds rose up an instant only to fall back , this time with Damocles mounted and digging in his spurs . |
| 2 | His thin elbows and shoulder blades hit the sides of the cart at frequent intervals so that he would wake suddenly , only to fall back exhausted into a chaotically dream-filled sleep . |
| 3 | I scoffed at such nonsense , and leapt up the beach , lanyard in hand , only to fall flat in the surf , as the waves turned sand from firm to quick . |
| 4 | She tried to make her voice heard above the general clamour and hurried forward , only to lose sight of her quarry in the crowd . |
| 5 | Many pilots plan on the basis that they have only to lose height from the final turn to the DH during the total inbound time . |
| 6 | Remember , we want you not only to lose weight but to feel really healthy with your body in good nutritional balance . |
| 7 | Arsenal ace opens his heart only to Mirror Sport |
| 8 | The police were needed not only to combat crime , but also to provide an alternative to the army in suppressing serious public disorder . |
| 9 | I have seen Koi survive and thrive in the most unlikely ponds , providing their owners provide knowledgeable TLC , and I have witnessed good carp caught by anglers using rods apparently fit only to support runner beans . |
| 10 | Well , clearly income can not fall below zero , so in a sense that represents an ‘ absolute ’ floor ; in practice , however , although investment demand can fall to zero when firms are so pessimistic that they have no demand for either new or replacement capital , consumption demand must always be positive , if only to sustain life . |
| 11 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 12 | The extent to which the desire for the products of industry , beyond necessities , results from the processes of want-creation as distinct from pre-existing materialistic tendencies is obscure , but there is some plausibility in Galbraith 's picture of a corporate system whose power includes an ability not only to stimulate demand for particular goods but also to shape prevailing social values . |
| 13 | It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 14 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 15 | He had not only to acquire knowledge of the artificial-flower trade but to compete , while paying full male wages , against most manufacturers , who employed low-waged girls . |
| 16 | Then at last , desperate , Alexandra had leaned towards her nearest neighbour , a pale aristocratic child with thin mouse-coloured hair tied up in blue ribbons and said , meaning only to establish identity , ‘ Who is your father ? ’ |
| 17 | It creates a compulsion to refuse treatment or only to accept treatment which is likely to be ineffective . |
| 18 | One has only to stand back and survey the scope of changes and the timescales involved to appreciate the problems encountered by senior management . |
| 19 | After the prince returned to England it must have seemed increasingly unlikely that he would live to inherit the throne , and the prospect of Richard 's succession as a child served only to increase uncertainty . |
| 20 | But when confronted with such a defeat , changes at the top are needed , if only to revive enthusiasm and ideas . |
| 21 | A treaty of union which required the English monarch and Parliament to guarantee the security of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland , many felt , would serve only to encourage Dissent and undermine further the integrity of the Anglican Church . |
| 22 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 23 | Even in July or August it is possible not only to find accommodation but to pay very little for it . |
| 24 | That is fundamental to the needs of our economy in the years ahead ; fundamental to the prospects for unemployed people ; and fundamental also to the creation of opportunities for our people not only to obtain work , to have and to hold down a job , but to obtain work and jobs which give them satisfaction , which are truly rewarding and which enable them to fulfil their potential to the greatest possible extent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A more oblique approach , a project of the elder James Stephen , was to create a central registry of slaves intended not only to provide evidence of the extent to which the anti-slave trade legislation was being evaded , but to illuminate the demographic trends within the slave population and indirectly the conditions and treatment of the bondsmen . |
| 27 | The purpose of these laws was not only to provide guidance for the day-to-day running of the Israelite community , but to teach how a holy God was to be worshipped by a holy people . |
| 28 | ‘ Previous reports on diet and health have told us we need to eat fruit and vegetables only to provide roughage , ’ says Professor James . |
| 29 | The results of these latest trials indicate the continuing need for close cooperation between neurosurgeons , pathologists , and radiation oncologists in the management of cancers that metastasise to the brain , not only to provide biopsy material for histological diagnosis but also to carry out excisional surgery in appropriate cases . |
| 30 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |