Example sentences of "able [adv] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was able not only to point out the inconsistencies of the so-called ‘ voluntary agreements ’ but also to the confusion in the ranks of the tobacco industry . |
| 2 | The dual-route model of reading is thus able not only to explain an existing set of data within a simple theoretical model , it also successfully pinpointed the existence of an entirely new type of acquired dyslexia . |
| 3 | Six days later , by the following Wednesday evening , she was able not only to lift the cigar up into the air but also to move it around exactly as she wished . |
| 4 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 5 | The clerk , Robert Clive , was able not only to take Arcot by a surprise attack but also to inspire his little force to hang on to it during a 50-day seige in which a series of onslaughts on the citadel was beaten off . |
| 6 | He was then able not only to find the green with a nine-iron but be close enough for a tap-in putt for his three . |
| 7 | think feminism has to provide a unified , positive alternative for all women , in order for them to be able not only to know about but to reject and try to escape subordination ( 1979 : 129 ) . |
| 8 | " By this means we hope to place at the disposal of our party in Parliament and in the country a trained body of fully formed critics , able not only to expose and correct the usual crudities of Radical-Socialist legislation , but to give form to a comprehensive policy of social reform . " |
| 9 | Because of his understanding of practice , he is able not only to show how police ideology is maintained , but even propose alternative models by merely writing down and presenting his knowledge . |