Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity . |
| 2 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 3 | Clause 11 of Precedent 1 is a very short form of confidentiality clause , which is mutually binding , while cl 11.1 of Precedent 2 is inserted by the buyer only to bind the seller . |
| 4 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 5 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 6 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 7 | She stumbled out of the car only to find that Rune had been quicker , waiting for her to emerge , offering her his supporting arm as her ankle momentarily twisted on the cobblestones , causing her to utter a sharp cry of distress . |
| 8 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 9 | They led by 14 points at the break only to dry up three minutes from time when they were 58–42 ahead leaving Paul Carr to hit the last ten points of the game and be top scorer on 28 points . |
| 10 | Maura and Margaret became a pair , the friendship only to end with the death of one of them . |
| 11 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 12 | Having been warned off Channel 7 by Pannells , he contacted the Institute only to find that it could not approve the service . |
| 13 | He left the shop only to find another barrow boy , who looked about a year younger than himself , was already selling chestnuts from his pitch . |
| 14 | Instead , the vendor will normally seek undertakings from the purchaser only to operate the business in the same or a similar manner to the way it was operated before the sale . |
| 15 | At best we are trapped in a modern version of the ancient myth of Sisyphus : condemned forever to roll the electoral stone to the top of the hill only to see it roll back down again . |
| 16 | In Martin Luther 's words , just as a mother goes to the cradle only to find the baby , we go to the Bible only to find Christ . |
| 17 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 18 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 19 | I 've spent hours , literally , dialling and re-dialling the place only to get the engaged tone every time . |
| 20 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 21 | After three doses , she slept deeply , waking intermittently during the night only to urinate . |
| 22 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 23 | He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity . |
| 24 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |
| 25 | She had made it halfway before deciding to come up for air , turning her face upwards as she broke the surface only to collide in a tangle of arms and legs , with a strong , masculine body . |
| 26 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 27 | Uncharacteristically , Eva got to the platform only to find that her spectacles were not in her handbag . |
| 28 | The adults are viviparous , producing active microfilariae that rest in the lungs during the day only to appear in the peripheral blood at night when the culex mosquito host is active . |
| 29 | As far as I recall , the Krooms were not the best tacticians and kept trying to throng out of holes in the ground only to have their bodies dismembered and decapitated by the two knights . |
| 30 | Although led by communists , Hannington 's movement was criticized by the Communist party for failing to politicize the unemployed , large numbers of whom joined the movement only to leave it quickly once work was obtained . |