Example sentences of "[adj] only [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 2 | Most motorists know that it is possible to feel absolutely certain what the matter is with the engine and to put that right only to find that the car still does not start . |
| 3 | That only means that our overdraft will be cut from stlg6m to stlg5.5m ( or whatever it was ) ie. We still need the Batty money for this , and future years accounts . |
| 4 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 5 | Unfortunately this only proves that the total costed each month to the various cost centres is correct , but does not overcome the problem of invoices or other documentation inadvertently being costed to the wrong project . |
| 6 | However , this only shows that there is some natural classification ( which would not be the case if traits were allotted to objects randomly ) , but not that the natural classification is hierarchical . |
| 7 | But this only shows that we will not learn the whole meaning at once , at the beginning . |
| 8 | I had to retrace my steps and double back around areas that proved too soft only to find that everywhere else was as bad . |
| 9 | At the moment , it is important only to note that the prospective sale of the industry and the opening up of competition within electricity generation produced a fundamental dilemma . |
| 10 | Orwell , concerned only to demonstrate that political will destroys the individual , offers no verdict on such refinements . |
| 11 | When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service . |
| 12 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |