Example sentences of "[be] only to [be] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 2 | But speculative source-study can reveal more about the reading of the scholar than about the actual text whose possible sources are the object of the exercise and , after all , it is only to be expected that those who share a faith will also share a way of expressing it . |
| 3 | It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes . |
| 4 | Since each is a little different from its parent , it is only to be expected that each will be slightly more different from its grandparents ( and its grandchildren ) , and even more different still from its great grandparents ( and great grandchildren ) . |
| 5 | It is only to be expected that there are not too many IT experts around who could effectively advise policy makers and managers , and design IT systems . |
| 6 | It is only to be regretted that the Committee has not pursued this policy with sufficient boldness and consistency . |
| 7 | It was only to be expected that a man who has written with such insight and style about Calcutta and New York , cricket and the crossing of deserts would do justice to a life-long passion . |
| 8 | It was only to be expected that the contestants would take note of this background information , in one way or another . |
| 9 | After an eight hour [ night ] patrol , it was only to be expected that the policeman would prefer resting to hanging around the courts waiting to bring petty offenders to book . |
| 10 | As some staff had been in the Dean Centre for much of their working lives , it was only to be expected that they would leave Belford Road behind with some regret . |