Example sentences of "only [verb] [pron] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventing dental and gum disease will not only make your visits to the dentist more pleasant , but will mean that your mouth feels fresher and you can have a bright smile . |
| 2 | General Motors has two dealers in Britain — in Kingston and Manchester — and if you want a Syclone they will only lighten your wallet to the tune of £20,000 . |
| 3 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 4 | ‘ The Independent claims it has lost just 2pc , which not only undermines their submission to the OFT , but also indicates we may be expanding the market and attracting a number of lapsed broadsheet readers back to the fold . ’ |
| 5 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
| 6 | The offering of gifts by the tribal chiefs and kings on behalf of their people was not only to demonstrate their obligation to the gods , but also to show the gods what the tribe needed from them ; usually greater wealth and greater victories over their enemies . |
| 7 | If he 'll only put his shoulder to the wheel . |
| 8 | Forster settled down , only putting his eye to the slit every half minute , not continually as he had started to do . |
| 9 | This not only gave me access to the early morning shot of the Opera House from Farm Cove , but also a marvellous image of the disk of sun rising behind the naval boats in the strangely named harbour . |
| 10 | This not only gave me access to the early morning shot of the Opera House from Farm Cove , but also a marvellous image of the disk of sun rising behind naval boats in the strangely-named harbour . |
| 11 | If you continue to eat the same kind of foods , and only increase your intake to the normal 2,000 mark by eating a little bit more of the same , life and the measuring tape should hold no terrors for you . |