Example sentences of "[adv] only [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 2 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |
| 3 | So now the pressure on the broker is not only to do more business but to do it in exactly their way . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’ |
| 5 | The organisers of Dublin 's year are keen not only to promote all things Irish but also make a European stand and put on exhibitions of interest to the whole community . |
| 6 | From the 1880s the regime made plain its determination not only to halt any further movement in the direction of public participation but in some respects to reverse the reforms of the 1860s . |
| 7 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 8 | You want a sturdy young fellow here not only to lift that but also those sacks of sugar and such . ’ |
| 9 | We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status . |
| 10 | An aggressively commercial approach was required not only to solve some short-term problems but to provide a record of profit that would possibly be attractive for future tender . |
| 11 | The company should therefore engineer the debt not only to match these general business needs , but also to optimise the legal , corporate tax , and maybe even the accounting disclosure implications . |
| 12 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
| 13 | A feature of the morphoclimatic zones recognized by the French school ( Tricart , 1957 ) was the attempt not only to relate such morphoclimatic zones to climates and to processes but also to soils and to vegetation . |
| 14 | The grand plan was not only to achieve this stage of evolution in the shortest possible time , but also to eliminate Marxism , the opposing principle or force relative to this philosophy . |
| 15 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 16 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |
| 17 | We launched this draw not only to encourage more people to enjoy ‘ old York ’ , but also to give them the opportunity to experience the excitement of New York . ’ |
| 18 | Fortunately this is seldom actually the case with practical materials because , in order to produce a new fracture surface , we have generally not only to break all the chemical bonds at the fracture surface ( which requires only the free surface energy ) , we also disturb the molecular structure of the material to a depth which is sometimes very considerable ; in doing so we break a great many other bonds as well . |
| 19 | This applies not only to work that is strictly social scientific , but also to that with , for example , a more medical or demographic orientation . |
| 20 | The problem is not only to apply this principle , but also to respect its limits , in relation to the facts of particular cases in the light of the authorities . |
| 21 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |
| 22 | His fundamental mistake was not only to buy all his planes , but to buy them only on borrowed money . |
| 23 | This is because Culpitt endeavours not only to provide some useful insights into such thorny issues as welfare rights and obligations as well as the concept of need ( which should be read in conjunction with Doyal and Gough 's ( 1991 ) recent analysis ) but also to chart the way in which the management of welfare has been transformed as a result of the drift towards privatization and the emerging emphasis on the purchase rather than the provision of welfare in the public sphere . |
| 24 | The skilled negotiator , on the other hand , asks questions not only to gain more information and understanding but also as an alternative to disagreeing bluntly and as a means of putting forward suggestions ( ie possible courses of action said as questions . |
| 25 | The aim of formalised , competitive intelligence systems is not only to bring all this information together on a continuing basis — perhaps using database techniques ( though as we shall see , there is still considerable scepticism about the cost-effectiveness of such techniques , when compared to manual methods ) . |
| 26 | An explosive harpoon is being developed , not only to damage less meat , but to kill whales quickly and humanely . |
| 27 | It certainly identifies a central tendency in a particular repertory ; but it goes on not only to consume that repertory in every aspect but also to gobble up all kinds of popular music . |
| 28 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |